Dissing Elizabeth

Negative Representations of Gloriana

By: Julia M. Walker (Editor)

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Paperback | 2 April 1998

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Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I. The essays in this politically and historically revealing book demonstrate the sheer pervasiveness and range of rhetoric against the queen, illuminating the provocative discourse of disrespect and dissent that existed over an eighty-year period, from her troubled days as a princess to the decades after her death in 1603.
As editor Julia M. Walker suggests, the breadth of dissent considered in this collection points to a dark side of the Cult of Elizabeth. Reevaluating neglected texts that had not previously been perceived as critical of the queen or worthy of critical appraisal, contributors consider dissent in a variety of forms, including artwork representing (and mocking) the queen, erotic and pornographic metaphors for Elizabeth in the popular press, sermons subtly critiquing her actions, and even the hostility encoded in her epitaph and in the placement of her tomb. Other chapters discuss gossip about Elizabeth, effigies of the queen, polemics against her marriage to the Duke of Alen§on, common verbal slander, violence against emblems of her authority, and the criticism embedded in the riddles, satires, and literature of the period.

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"Dissing Elizabeth looks at Elizabeth's contemporary reputation, and finds critics among artists, poets, preachers, and collectors of commonplaces."--Christopher Haigh "English Historical Review"

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dark Side of the Cult of Elizabeth
History and Policy
The Bad Seed: Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Incident
Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?
The Royal Image in Elizabeth Ireland
"We shall never have a merry world while the Queene lyveth": Gender, Monarchy, and the Power of Seditious Words
Pamphlets and Sermons
"Soueraigne Lord of lordly Lady of this land": Elizabeth, Stubbs, and the Gaping Gvlf
Out of Egypt: Richard Fletcher's Sermon before Elizabeth I after the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
The Power of the Poets
"The Image of this Queeneso quaynt": The Pornographic Blazon 1588-1608
Queen Elizabeth Compiled: Henry Stanford's Private Anthology and the Question of Accountability
"Not as women wonted be": Spenser's Amazon Queen
The Image of the Queen
Fair Is Fowle: Interpreting Anti-Elizabethan Composite Portariture
Bones of Contention: Posthumous Images of Elizabeth and Stuart Politics
Secondary Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
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