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Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on three representational crises spaced fifteen years apart: the London coronation of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queenein 1590. In ways which varied with social class and historical circumstance, the London merchants, the members of the Protestant faction, courtly artists, and artful courtiers all sought to stabilize their own gendered identities by constructing the queen within the "natural" definitions of the feminine as passive and weak. Elizabeth fought back, acting as a discursive agent by crossing, and thus disrupting, these definitions. She and those closely identified with her interests evolved a number of strategies through which to express her political control in terms of the ownership of her body, including her elaborate iconography and a mythic biography upon which most accounts of Elizabeth's life have been based. The more authoritative her image became, the more vigorously it was contested in a process which this study examines and consciously perpetuates.
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Introduction: Who Represents Elizabeth? p. 3
Engendered Economics: Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559) p. 22
Queen Mary as Pre-text p. 26
Sponsors, Authors, and Meaning in the Entries of Elizabeth and James p. 30
Allegory, Instability, and Material Practice p. 33
Elizabeth's Early Self-representation p. 36
The Sexual Economy of the Passage p. 40
Truth, the Daughter of the Signifier p. 43
Profits and Representations p. 48
Engendering Policy at Kenilworth (1575) p. 56
Ambition and Policy p. 57
Kenilworth's Two Texts p. 61
The Terms of the Visit p. 65
A Proposal of Marriage p. 70
Elizabeth's Imprisonment p. 72
A "Military Skirmish" and Questions of Policy in the Netherlands p. 78
"By soveraigne maidens might" p. 86
Elizabeth, Dudley, and the Competition for Representation p. 92
Engendered Violence: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Definitions of Chastity (1590) p. 97
Turning Sixty in the 1590s p. 98
The Queen's Presence p. 104
Elizabeth's Later Strategies of Self-representation p. 107
Spenser and the Definitions of Chastity p. 114
Love, Magic, and the Female Audience p. 120
The Topography of Threat and Rape p. 124
"So cruelly to pen": Denying Rape and Having It, Too p. 128
Spenser and Busirane p. 132
Captivity: Essex and the Queen p. 135
Captivity: Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen p. 139
Epilogue: Reading Elizabeth Reading p. 144
Notes p. 149
Selected Bibliography p. 195
Index p. 217
Engendered Economics: Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559) p. 22
Queen Mary as Pre-text p. 26
Sponsors, Authors, and Meaning in the Entries of Elizabeth and James p. 30
Allegory, Instability, and Material Practice p. 33
Elizabeth's Early Self-representation p. 36
The Sexual Economy of the Passage p. 40
Truth, the Daughter of the Signifier p. 43
Profits and Representations p. 48
Engendering Policy at Kenilworth (1575) p. 56
Ambition and Policy p. 57
Kenilworth's Two Texts p. 61
The Terms of the Visit p. 65
A Proposal of Marriage p. 70
Elizabeth's Imprisonment p. 72
A "Military Skirmish" and Questions of Policy in the Netherlands p. 78
"By soveraigne maidens might" p. 86
Elizabeth, Dudley, and the Competition for Representation p. 92
Engendered Violence: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Definitions of Chastity (1590) p. 97
Turning Sixty in the 1590s p. 98
The Queen's Presence p. 104
Elizabeth's Later Strategies of Self-representation p. 107
Spenser and the Definitions of Chastity p. 114
Love, Magic, and the Female Audience p. 120
The Topography of Threat and Rape p. 124
"So cruelly to pen": Denying Rape and Having It, Too p. 128
Spenser and Busirane p. 132
Captivity: Essex and the Queen p. 135
Captivity: Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen p. 139
Epilogue: Reading Elizabeth Reading p. 144
Notes p. 149
Selected Bibliography p. 195
Index p. 217
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