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ELIZABETH I (1533 - 1603)
An Essential Bibliography
Writings:
Allinson, Rayne, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I,
Palgrave Macmillan 2012.
Bajetta, Carlo M., ―'Most peereles Poëtresse': the manuscript circulation of Elizabeth's poems‖, in Representations of
Elizabeth, ed. A. Petrina - L. Tosi, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2011, pp. 105-121.
Beal, Peter and Grace Ioppolo, eds., Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, London: The British Library, 2007.
Bell, Ilona. ―Elizabeth Tudor: Poet.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump
and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 1-22.
Benkert, Lysbeth. ―Translation as Image-Making: Elizabeth I‘s Translation of Boethius‘s Consolation of
Philosophy.‖ Early Modern Literary Studies 6.3 (January 2001): 2.1-20.
Bradner, Leicester, ed. The Poems of Elizabeth I. Providence: Brown UP, 1964.
Bruce, John, ed. Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI of Scotland. London: Camden Society, 1849. Rpt. New
York: AMS, 1968.
Frye, Susan. ―The Myth of Elizabeth at Tilbury.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 95-114.
Green, Janet M. ― ‗I My Self‘: Queen Elizabeth I‘s Oration at Tilbury Camp.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 42145.
Harrison, G.B., ed. The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1935, 1968.
Heisch, Allison. Queen Elizabeth I: Political Speeches and Parliamentary Addresses, 1558-1601. Madison: U of
Wisconsin P, 1994.
Herman, Peter C., ed. Reading Monarch’s Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James
VI/I. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002.
Hopkins, Lisa. Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Newark: U of
Delaware P, 2002.
Kinney, Arthur F. Elizabethan Backgrounds: Historical Documents of the Age of Elizabeth. 2d ed. Hamden, CT: Shoe
String, 1975.
Marcus, Leah S., Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I, Collected Works. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
2000.
May, Steven W., ed. Elizabeth I: Selected Works. Washington Square, 2004.
May, Steven W. ―Queen Elizabeth to Her Subjects: The Tilbury and Golden Speeches.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A
Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in
Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 23-39.
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Mueller, Janel, and Leah S. Marcus. Elizabeth I, Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals. Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2003.
Mueller, Janel. ―Textualism, Contextualism, and the Writings of Queen Elizabeth I.‖ English Studies and History. Ed.
David Robertson. Tampere, Finland: U of Tampere P, 1994. 11-38.
Perry, Maria. The Word of a Prince. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell, 1995.
Petrina, Alessandra and Tosi, Laura, ed., Representations of Elizabeth, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2011.
Prescott, Anne Lake. ―The Pearl of the Valois and Elizabeth I: Marguerite de Navarre‘s Miroir and Tudor England.‖ In
Margaret Patterson Hannay, ed. Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of
Religious Works. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1985. 61-76.
Prior, Felix, ed. Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003.
Rice, George P., ed. The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses. New York:
Columbia UP, 1951.
Rose, Mary Beth. ―The Gendering of Authority in the Public Speeches of Elizabeth I.‖ PMLA 115 (2000): 1077-82.
Shell, Marc. Elizabeth’s Glass; With The Glass of the Sinful Soul (1544) by Elizabeth I and Epistle Dedicatory and
Conclusion by John Bale. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1993.
Summit, Jennifer. ―The Arte of a Ladies Penne‘: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship.‖ The Mysteries of Elizabeth.
Ed. Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2003. 67-96.
Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 2000.
Teague, Frances. ―Elizabeth I: Queen of England.‖ Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Katharine
M. Wilson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1987. 522-47.
Teague, Frances. ―Queen Elizabeth in Her Speeches.‖ Gloriana’s Face. Ed. S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies.
Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1992. 67-69.
Woudhuysen, H.R., "The Queen's Own hand, A Preliminary Account", in Beal, Peter and Grace Ioppolo, eds., Elizabeth
I and the Culture of Writing, London: The British Library, 2007.
The Queen’s Life and Reign / aspects of Elizabeth’s figure in history and literature
Adler, Doris. ―Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens.‖ English Literary Renaissance 2 (1981): 235-60.
Archer, Jayne Elizabeth, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, eds, The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of
Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d. Leeds: Maney, 1988.
Bassnett, Susan. Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective. Oxford: Berg, 1988.
Beem, Charles, ed. The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Beem, Charles, The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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Bela, Teresa, The Image of the Queen in Elizabethan Poetry, Krakow: Nakladem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 1994.
Bell, Ilona. Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Bell, Ilona. ―Elizabeth I—Always Her Own Free Woman.‖ Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Ed.
Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. 57-82.
Belsey, Andrew, and Catherine Belsey, ―Icons of Divinity: Portraits of Elizabeth I‖, in Renaissance Bodies. The
Human Figure in English Culture c.1540-1660, ed. by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn, London: Reaktion, 1990, pp.
11-35.
Berry, Philippa, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, London: Routledge, 1989.
Bowman, Mary R., ―‗She there as Princess rained‘: Spenser‘s Figure of Elizabeth‖, Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990):
pp. 509-528.
Cavanagh, Sheila. ―The Bad Seed: Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Incident.‖ Dissing Elizabeth: Negative
Representations of Gloriana. Ed. Julia Walker. Durham: Duke UP, 1998. 9-29.
Coch, Christine. ―‗Mother of my Contreye‘: Elizabeth I and Tudor Constructions of Motherhood.‖ ELR 26 (1996):
423-51.
Cole, Mary Hill. ―Maternal Memory: Elizabeth Tudor‘s Anne Boleyn.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial
Celebration. Ed. Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30
(Summer 2004): 41-55.
Collinson, Patrick. Elizabeth I. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.
Crane, Mary Thomas, ―‗Video et Taceo‘: Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel‖, Studies in English Literature 15001900 28 (1988): pp. 1-15.
Dobson, Michael and Nicola J. Watson, England’s Elizabeth. An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Doebler, B.A., ―Venus-Humanitas: An Iconic Elizabeth‖, Journal of European Studies 12 (1982): pp. 233-48.
Doran, Susan and David Starkey, Elizabeth: the Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London: Chatto and
Windus, 2003.
Doran, Susan and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Doran, Susan, "Elizabeth I‘s Religion: the Evidence of Letters", Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51 (2000), 699-720.
Doran, Susan, ―Juno Versus Diana: The Treatment of Elizabeth I‘s Marriage in Plays and Entertainments, 1561-1581‖,
The Historical Journal 38 (1995): pp. 257-274.
Doran, Susan. ―Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?‖ Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Ed. Julia
Walker. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998. 30-59.
Doran, Susan. Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. London: Routledge, 1996.
Doran, Susan. Queen Elizabeth I. New York: New York UP, 2003.
Dunlop, Ian. Palaces and Progresses of Elizabeth I. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.
Dunn, Jane. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. New York: Knopf, 2004.
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Farrell, Kirby, and Swaim, Kathleen, ed. The Mysteries of Elizabeth I: Selections from “English Literary
Renaissance.” Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2003.
Frye, Susan, and Karen Robertson, eds, Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women‘s Alliances in Early
Modern England, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.165-183.
Frye, Susan, Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Guy, John, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Guy, John. Tudor England. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1990.
Hackett, Helen, Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, New York: St. Martin‘s
Press, 1995.
Haigh, Christopher, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.
Haigh, Christopher, Elizabeth I, London: Longman, 1988.
Haigh, Christopher. Elizabeth I: Profile in Power. London: Longman, 1988.
Hamrick, Stephen ―‗Set in Portraiture‘: George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image‖, Early
Modern Literary Studies 11 (2005): pp. 1-30.
Hartley, T.E., Elizabeth’s Parliaments: Queen, Lords, and Commons, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1992.
Heisch, Allison, ―Queen Elizabeth I and the Persistence of Patriarchy‖, Feminist Review 4 (1980): pp. 45-56.
Hibbert, Christopher. The Virgin Queen. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 1991.
Hulse, Clark. Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend. Urbana: Newberry Library, U of Illinois P, 2003.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth the Great. London: Gollancz, 1958.
Johnson, Paul. Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.
King, John N., ―Queen Elizabeth I: Representations of the Virgin Queen‖, Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990): pp. 30-65.
Lee, Stephen J. Reign of Elizabeth I. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007.
Lee, Stephen J., The Reign of Elizabeth I 1558-1603, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
Levin, Carole and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Albany: State U of
New York P, 1995.
Levin, Carole, "Sister-Subject/Sister-Queen: Elizabeth I among Her Siblings", In Miller, Naomi J. and Naomi Yavneh
(eds and introd.), Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others.
Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 77-88.
Levin, Carole, Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney, eds. High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England:
Realities and Representations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Levin, Carole, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves, eds. Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.
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Levin, Carole. The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. Philadelphia: U of
Pennsylvania P, 1994.
Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Loades, David. Elizabeth I. London: Humbledon & London, 2003.
Loomis, Catherine. The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010.
MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I. London: Edward Arnold, 1993.
MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Elizabeth I, London: Arnold, 1993.
MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Elizabeth I: War and Politics1588-1603, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992
MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, Priceton: Princeton UP, 1981
MacCaffrey, Wallace T., The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime, London: Jonathan Cape 1969 (Pirnceton UP 1968)
Marcus, Leah S., ―Shakespeare‘s Comic Heroines, Elizabeth I, and the Political Uses of Androgyny‖, in Women in the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives, ed. by Mary Beth Rose, Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 1986, pp. 135-155.
McLaren, A.N., Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Mears, Natalie, Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Merton, Charlotte Isabelle, ―The Women who Served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: Ladies, Gentlewomen and
Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553–1603‖, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1992.
Montini, Donatella, I discorsi dei re. Retorica e politica in Elisabetta I e in Henry V di Shakespeare, Bari: Adriatica,
1999.
Montrose, Louis Adrian, ―Idols of the Queen: Policy, Gender, and the Picturing of Elizabeth I‖, Representations 68
(1999): pp.108-161.
Montrose, Louis Adrian, The Subject of Elizabeth. Authority, Gender, and Representation, Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2006.
Mueller, Janel, ―Elizabeth I: Poet of Danger‖, in Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. by Patrick
Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott, New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000, pp. 202-209.
Mueller, Janel, ―Virtue and Virtuality: Gender in the Self-Representations of Queen Elizabeth I‖, Form and Reform in
Renaissance England: Essays in honour of Barbara Kiefer Lewalsky, ed. by Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane,
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999, pp. 220-246.
Mulstein, Anka. Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage. Trans. John Brownjohn. London: Haus, 2007.
Neale, J.E. Queen Elizabeth. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Neale, John Ernest, Elizabeth I and her Parliaments, 1559-1581, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Neale, John Ernest, Queen Elizabeth I, London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.
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Orlin, Lena Cowen, ―The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I‖, in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, ed.
by Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 85-110.
Orlin, Lena. ―The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I.‖ Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Ed. Carole
Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan. Albany, NY: SU of New York P, 1995, 85-109.
Perry, Curtis, ―The Citizen Politics of Nostalgia: Queen Elizabeth in Early Modern Jacobean London‖, Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): pp. 89-111.
Perry, Maria, The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1990.
Perry, Maria. The Word of a Prince. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1990.
Picard, Liza. Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. New York: St. Martin‘s, 2004.
Plowden, Alison. Elizabeth I. Stroud, Eng.: Sutton, 2004.
Plowden, Alison. Marriage with My Kingdom: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. London: Macmillan, 1977.
Plowden, Alison. The Young Elizabeth: The First Twenty-Five Years of Elizabeth I. Stroud, Eng.: Sutton, 1999.
Pringle, Roger, A Portrait of Elizabeth I, Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1980.
Pryor, Felix, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters, London: British Library, 2003.
Read, Conyers, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.
Ridley, Jasper. Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue. New York: Fromm International, 1989.
Riehl, Anna. The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Rose, Mary Beth, ―The Gendering of Authority in the Public Speeches of Elizabeth I‖, PMLA 115 (2000): pp. 10771082.
Ross, Josephine. The Men Who Would be King: Suitors to Queen Elizabeth I. London: Phoenix, 2005.
Ruark, Jennifer K., "Good Queen Bess, Powerful Sovereign and an Author, Too", Chronicle of Higher Education 47:4,
2000 Sept 22, A24, A26.
Shenk, Linda. Learned Queen: The Image of Elizabeth I in Politics and Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Smither, L.J. ―Elizabeth I: A Psychological Profile.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 15 (1984): 47-72.
Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991.
Starkey, David, Elizabeth: Apprenticeship, London: Vintage, 2001.
Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. London: Perennial, 2000.
Strong, Roy C., Gloriana. The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Strong, Roy C., Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
Strong, Roy C., The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.
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Stump, Donald, and Carole Levin, eds. Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Special issue,
Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004).
Summit, Jennifer, ―‘The Arte of a Ladies Penne‘: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship‖, ELR 26 (1996): pp.395422.
Teague, Frances, ―Princess Elizabeth‘s Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul‖, in Writings by Early Modern Women, ed.
by Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, London: The British Library, 2000, pp.33-48.
Walker, Julia M., ed., Dissing Elizabeth, Negative Representations of Gloriana, Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Walker, Julia M., The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Walker, Julia, ed. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Watkins, John, ―Old Bess in the Ruff: Remembering Elizabeth I 1625-1660‖, English Literary Renaissance 30 (2000):
pp. 95-116.
Watkins, John, Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Watkins, Susan. In Public and in Private: Elizabeth I and Her World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.
Weir, Alison. The Life of Elizabeth I. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Williams, Penry. The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995.
Wilson, Elkin Calhoun, England’s Eliza, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939.
Woolf, D.R., ―Two Elizabeths? James I and the Late Queen‘s Famous Memory‖, Canadian Journal of History 20
(1985): pp. 167-191.
Wright, Pam, ―A Change in Direction: The Ramification of a Female Household, 1558–1603‖, in The English Court:
From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, ed. by David Starkey et al., London, New York: Longman, 1987, pp.
147–72.
Yates, Frances A., Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
Ziegler, Georgianna, ed. Elizabeth I: Then and Now. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2003.
Links
Elizabeth I - Biography
From Tudorhistory.com.
Selected Poetry of Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
From Representative Poetry On-line - Department of English at the University of Toronto.
The Life and Times Of Queen Elizabeth I
Interesting as well as educational information on the life and times of Queen Elizabeth. Includes some texts.
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth was perhaps the first monarch to understand the importance of public relations and she carefully prepared her
image for public consumption. This site presents a good deal of them...
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'Elizabeth: Ruler & Legend'.
An exhibit at the Newberry Library website. Very good images. Includes a Bibliography... and a Filmography !!!
The Queen Elizabeth I Society
The Queen Elizabeth I Society aims to bring together scholars interested in the Queen and in the intellectual, artistic,
cultural, and religious life of her court. This website includes a much larger bibliography than the one presented on
Readytoteach, though not often updated.
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