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This introduction aims to place the collection within a field of scholarship on Elizabeth I as a writer which, although well established, has emerged relatively recently. The aim of the book is to take a closer, updated look at the role that textuality plays in Queen Elizabeth’s life as a powerful, ruling monarch. A range of diverse approaches are adopted here to shed light both on the queen considered as an author in her own right and as someone whose authority is also reflected in, or produced by, the writing of others, with special regard to the important Anglo–Italian connection: linguistic and philological analyses are offered along with literary and cultural-historical explorations, bringing together a number of authors who have contributed to illuminate the multifaceted written production of Elizabeth I.
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John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, in David Laing ed., The Works of John Knox, vol. IV (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1895), 349–422; 374.
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See in particular Carole Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Charles Beem, The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); the classic and still very relavant point of departure for any reflection on early modern self-representation is of course Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980).
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See Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo, eds., Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (London: The British Library, 2007).
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Alessandra Petrina, “Introduction,” in Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 1–10. See also Aysha Pollnitz, Princely Education in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) 241–61.
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Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds., Elizabeth I . Collected Works (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000); Janel Mueller and Leah S. Marcus, eds., Elizabeth I . Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003).
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Steven W. May, “Recent Studies in Elizabeth I ,” in The Mysteries of Elizabeth I , ed. Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swain (Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press, 2003), 279–93; 287.
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Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel, eds., Elizabeth I . Translations, vol. I (1544–1589), vol. II (1592–1598) (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009).
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See in particular Rayne Allinson, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Beal and Ioppolo 2007; Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen, and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Elizabeth I ’s Foreign Correspondence. Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Carlo M. Bajetta, ed. and trans., Elizabeth I ’s Italian Letters (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Mel Evans, The Language of Queen Elizabeth I : A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); Brenda Hosington, “Tudor Englishwomen’s Translations of Continental Protestant Texts: The Interplay of Ideology and Historical Context,” in Tudor Translation , ed. Fred Schurink (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 121–42; Brenda Hosington, “‘How We Ovght to Knowe God’: Princess Elizabeth’s Presentation of Her Calvin Translation to Katherine Parr,” in Booldly Bot Meekly. Essays on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages in Honour of Roger Ellis, ed. Catherine Batt and René Tixier (Tournhout: Brepols, 2017), 353–62.
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Leah S. Marcus, “Queen Elizabeth I as Public and Private Poet: Notes Toward a New Edition,” in Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart , Elizabeth I , and James VI/I, ed. Peter C. Herman (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), 135–53.
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Montini, D., Plescia, I. (2018). Introduction. In: Montini, D., Plescia, I. (eds) Elizabeth I in Writing. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71952-8_1
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