Goddesses and queens;the iconography of elizabeth i

IntroductionA world in crisis: Elizabeth’s iconography and religious tensions1. Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of powerCarol Blessing2. Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VIBen Spiller3. ‘Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine’: Queen Elizabeth I as Lady AlchymiaJayne ArcherVirginia and the Virgin: Elizabeth and the new world4. Elizabeth I: size mattersDeanne Williams5. ‘And In Their Midst a Sun’: Petrarch’s triumphs and the Elizabethan iconHeather Campbell6. ‘Nature Without Labor’: Virgin Queen and virgin land in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of GuianaHelen J. BurgessThe old world and the new: classical precedents7. The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and TitaniaLisa Hopkins8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s retrospective on Elizabeth I and the iconography of marriageAnnaliese Connolly9. Cynthia waning: Cynthia’s Revels imagines the death of the QueenMatthew SteggleCoda: Elizabeth’s afterlife10. ‘Turn thy Tombe into a Throne’: Elizabeth I’s death rehearsalScott L. Newstok -- .