Elizabeth I The Voice of a Monarch

This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country herself either way.

Ilona Bell is Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of English at Williams College. She is the author of Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship and numerous essays on Renaissance poetry and early modern women. She also edited John Donne: Selected Poems.

List of Images	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Permissions	p. xvii
From Princess to Prince-A Brief Life Story	p. 1
The Art of Poetry, the Art of Courtship: Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan Writing Culture	p. 7
The Pre-coronation Procession: So Prince-like a Voice	p. 31
Early Days: Parliamentary Speech (1559) and the Woodstock Epigrams	p. 45
Diplomacy and Correspondency: Elizabeth's Reported Speech	p. 65
Parliamentary Speeches (1563, 1566) and the Psalter Posy	p. 93
Popular Debate and Courtly Dialogue: Always Her Own Free Woman	p. 117
The Queen of Enigma and Monsieur's Departure	p. 145
Notes	p. 173
Index	p. 201
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