Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Dark Side of the Cult of Elizabeth 1
5. History and Policy
6. The Bad Seed: Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Incident 9
7. Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry? 30
8. The Royal Image in Elizabethan Ireland 60
9. "We shall never have a merry world while the Queene lyveth": Gender, Monarchy, and the Power of Seditious Words 77
10. Pamphlets and Sermons
11. "Souereaigne Lord of lordly Lady of this land": Elizabeth, Stubbs, and the Gaping Gvlf 99
12. Out of Egypt: Richard Fletcher's Sermon before Elizabeth I after the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots 118
13. The Power of the Poets
14. "The Image of this Queene so quaynt": The Pornographic Blazon 1588-1603 153
15. Queen Elizabeth Compiled: Henry Stanford's Private Anthology and the Question of Accountability 185
16. "Not as women wonted be": Spenser's Amazon Queen 209
17. The Image of the Queen
18. Fair Is Fowle: Interpreting Anti-Elizabethan Composite Portraiture 229
19. Bones of Contention: Posthumous Images of Elizabeth and Stuart Politics 252
20. Secondary Works Cited 277
21. Notes on Contributors 293
22. Index 295