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Titel: Elizabeth I and her age
Autor: Stump, Donald V.
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface xix
Introduction xxi
Editorial Principles xxv
Illustrations xxvii
The Texts of Elizabeth I and Her Age i
PART ONE. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH (1533-1558)
Historical Background 3
Parentage and Infancy 5
John Foxe • From Acts and Monuments (1583)
[Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn] 7
[The birth and baptism of Elizabeth] 10
[The deaths of the Lady Katherine and of Queen Anne] 12
William Shakespeare and John Fletcher • From The Famous
History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth (1613) 14
Princess and Prodigy 15
Princess Elizabeth • Letter of Dedication to Katherine
Parr (1544) 17
John Bale • From A Godly Meditation of the
Christian Soul (1548) 18
Princess Elizabeth • Verse Translation of the Thirteenth
Psalm of David (1548) 23
The Church of England • Psalm 13 from the Great
Bible (1540) 24
Roger Ascham • From The Schoolmaster (1 570) 24
Threats and Imprisonment 25
Princess Elizabeth • Letter to Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector (1549) 27
Princess Elizabeth • Writings in Captivity
Letter to Mary Tudor (1554) 29
[Oh Fortune, Thy Wresting Wavering State] (1555) 30
[Twas Christ the Word] (1 554-55?) 30
[No Crooked Leg] (1558?) 31
Prayers (1554) 31
John Foxe • From Acts and Monuments
The Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer (1583) 32
The Miraculous Preservation of Lady Elizabeth (1563) 37
[The Curious Incident of the Goat] (1583) 39
ii Contents
Retrospectives on Mary and Elizabeth 40
Thomas Hevwood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth,
Part One (1605) 43
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1590)
[Arthur attacks the giant Orgoglio, and Duessa comes
to the giant's aid] 67
PART TWO: CORONATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF
LEGITIMACY, RELIGION, AND SUCCESSION (1559-1566)
Historical Background 73
The New Queen 74
Queen Elizabeth • Early Speeches (1558)
Words Spoken by Her Majesty to Master Cecil 75
Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords 76
Questions Concerning the Legitimacy of Female Rule 76
John Knox • From The First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) 77
John Aylmer • From An Harbor for Faithful and True
Subjects (1559) 83
The Coronation Pageants 88
Richard Mulcaster • From The Passage of Our Most Dread
Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth (1559) 91
Prayers and Exhortations 108
The Church Of England • From The Book of Common
Prayer (1559)
A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty no
Anonymous • From A Form of Prayer to be Used in Private
Houses Every Morning and Evening (1562) no
The Church of England • From The First Book of
Homilies (1559)
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and
Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates n°
William Whittingham • From The Dedicatory Epistle to the
Geneva Bible (1560) 114
Anne Vaughan Lock • From Sermons of John Calvin upon
the Song that Hezekiah Made (1560)
From The Dedicatory Epistle 116
From A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner 118
Queen Elizabeth • Prayers from Precationes Privatae (1563) 121
Questions at Home and Wars Abroad 123
Queen Elizabeth • First Speech before Parliament (1559) 125
Answer to the Commons' Petition That She Marry (1563) 127
Proclamation on the Return of Soldiers from
Newhaven (1563) 128
Contents ix
Elizabeth among Her People 131
Queen Elizabeth • Latin Oration at Cambridge (1564) 131
William Birch • A Song between the Queen's Majesty and
England (1564) ' 132
PART THREE: MARY STUART, THE NORTHERN REBELLION,
AND PROTESTANT DISCONTENT (1567-1571)
Historical Background
'37
The Matter of Mary Stuart 138
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to Mary Stuart (1 567) 141
Bishop John Lesley • From A Defense of the Honor of the
Princess Mary, Queen of Scotland (1569) 144
The Rebellion of the Northern Earls 148
Queen Elizabeth • Proclamation against the Earl of
Northumberland (1569) 150
Letter to Mary Stuart (1570) 152
Pope Pius V • The Bull of Excommunication against
Elizabeth (1570) 155
Thomas Norton • From A Disclosing of the Great Bull (1570) 158
Protestant Protests and Prayers 161
Edward Dering • From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen's Majesty [The "Unruly Heifer" Sermon] (1570) 162
John Conway • From Meditations and Prayers (1571) 167
Attributed to Queen Elizabeth • From Christian Prayers and
Meditations (1569) 168
Mary Stuart and the Ridolfi Plot 168
Queen Elizabeth • Letter to Thomas Smith, Authorizing the
Torture of Two Prisoners (1571) 171
The Doubt of Future Foes (15 70?) 171
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
[Britomart's dream at Isis Church and her rescue of
Artegall from Radigund and the Amazons] 172
PART FOUR: CHANGING ALLIANCES (1572-1577)
Historical Background 183
Prospects of Marriage and Trouble in France 184
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to Sir Francis Walsingham (1572) 186
The Church of England • From A Form of Common
Prayer (1572)
A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Preservation of the
Queen and The Realm 191
A Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies igi
Elizabeth on Summer Progress 192
Anonymous • The First Anointed Queen I Am (1573) 195
George Gascoigne and others • The Princely Pleasures at
Kenilworth Castle (15 7 5) 195
Contents
"Robert Laneham" • From A Letter of the Entertainment at
Killingworth (1575) 222
Prayers, Advice, and Praise for the Queen 226
Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit • From Morning and Evening
Prayers (1574) 228
Edward Hake • From A Commemoration of the Most
Prosperous and Peaceable Reign of Our Gracious and
Dear Sovereign Lady Elizabeth (1575) 228
James Sanford • From Hours of Recreation, or
Afterdinners (1576) 231
Nicholas Hilliard • From A Treatise Concerning the Art of
Limning (ca. 1570s) 234
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford • What Cunning Can
Express (ca. 1576) 234
PART FIVE: THE FRENCH MARRIAGE
NEGOTIATIONS (1578-1582)
Historical Background 237
The Queen, the French Amrassadors, and the
Visit to Norwich 238
Bernard Garter and William Goldingham • The Joyful
Receiving of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty into
Her Highness's City of Norwich (1578) 240
Richard Topcliffe • From Letter to the Earl of
Shrewsbury (1578) 264
Elizabeth, Anjou, and the Debate at Court 266
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to the Duke of Anjou and
Catherine de Medici (1579-82) 267
William Cecil, Lord Burghley • Letter to the Queen
Regarding Her Proposed Marriage (1579) 274
Sir Philip Sidney • From A Discourse of Sir Philip
Sidney to the Queen's Majesty Touching Her Marriage
with Monsieur (1579) 277
The Widening Controversy 281
William Elderton • A New Ballad, Declaring the Dangerous
Shooting of the Gun at the Court (1579) 283
John Stubbs • From The Discovery of A Gaping Gulf (1579) 287
Sir Philip Sidney • From Arcadia (ca. 1579-80)
[As I my Little Flock on Ister Bank] 295
Christopher Marlowe • From The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of
Carthage (ca. 1581-86) 300
Support for the Queen 302
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1579)
A very strange and rueful vision 3°3
Another vision 303
John Lyly • From Euphues and His England (1580) 304
Contents xi
Thomas Blenerhasset • From A Revelation of the True
Minerva (1582)
[Mercury prophesies concerning the kingdom of the
true Minerva] 306
[Mercury characterizes the Queen] 306
[The Muse Clio praises Elizabeth as a goddess immune to
misfortune] 307
Anjou's Departure and the Queen's Grief 308
Queen Elizabeth • Poem and Prayers (ca. 1579-82)
[I Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent] 309
From The Queen's Prayerbook 309
PART SIX: COURTIERS, ASSASSINS, AND THE DEATH
OF MARY STUART (1582-1587)
Historical Background 313
Cupid at Court 315
Queen Elizabeth • Reflections on Love and Growing
Older (ca. 1580s)
[When I Was Fair and Young] 316
[Now Leave and Let Me Rest] 317
Sir Walter Ralegh • Love Poems to the Queen
(ca. 1582-89)
[Our Passions Are Most Like to Floods and Streams] 318
[Sweet Are the Thoughts] 319
[Calling to Mind Mine Eye Long Went About] 319
[Verse Exchange with the Queen (1 587)] 310
[Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired] 321
Celebrations on Accession Day 321
Thomas Bentley • From The Monument of Matrons (1582) 323
Sir Philip Sidney • From Arcadia (ca. 1584-85)
[The Joust between Philisides and Lelius] 330
George Peele • From The Arraignment of Paris (1584) 332
Attacks and Assassination Attempts 334
Cardinal William Allen • From A True, Sincere, and Modest
Defense of English Catholics (I 584) 335
Thomas Heywood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two (1606)
[The Assassination Attempt of William Parry] 338
The Church of England • From An Order of Prayer and
Thanksgiving for the Preservation of the Queen's Majesty's
Life and Safety (1585) 342
The Execution of Mary Stuart 344
Queen Elizabeth • Speeches to Parliament (1585-86)
[Speech at the Closing of Parliament] 347
[The First Answer to the New Parliament Concerning
Mary Stuart] 348
From The Second Answer Made by the Queen's Majesty 352
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Mary Stuart • Letter to Henry III (1587) 353
Robert Wyngfield • From A Circumstantial Account of the
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) 355
Adam Blackwood • From History of Mary, Queen of
Scots (1587) 358
Richard Fletcher • From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen Immediately after the Execution of the Queen
of Scots by the Dean of Peterborough (1587) 361
Queen Elizabeth • Letter to James VI on the Execution of
His Mother (1587) 371
King James VI • Reply to Elizabeth (1587) 371
PART SEVEN: THE SPANISH ARMADA AND ITS AFTERMATH
(1588-1592)
Historical Rackground 373
Prophecies and Provocations 375
Cyprian von Leowitz • From Of the End of This World (1564)
[A Prophecy of the "Wonderful Year" 1588] 376
Richard Harvey • From An Astrological Discourse (1582)
[Another Prophecy] 376
Cardinal William Allen • From A Declaration of the
Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper
and Pretensed Queen of England (1588) 377
The Defeat of the Armada 378
James Aske • From Elizabetha Triumphans (1588)
[The Defeat of the Armada] 378
Thomas Heywood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two (1606)
[The Attack and Destruction of the Armada] 3"3
The Queen at Tilbury 39°
Queen Elizabeth • Words of Defiance and Inspiration (1588)
[Verse Exchange with Philip II] 392
[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury] 392
Thomas Deloney • The Queen's Visiting of the Camp at
Tilbury (1588) 393
James Aske • From Elizabetha Triumphans (1588)
[The Queen at Tilbury] 397
Victory Celebrations 402
Queen Elizabeth • The Queen in Victory (1588)
Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Overthrow of the
Spanish Navy 4°3
[Letter to James VI on the Fate of the Armada] 4°4
[Song on the Armada Victory] 4°5
The Church of England • From The Armada Liturgy (1588)
A Psalm of Thanksgiving 4°5
A Collect of Thanksgiving 4°7
David Gwyn • In Commendation of Sir Francis Drake (1588) 408
Contents xiii
George Puttenham • From The Art of English Poesy (1589)
Her Majesty Resembled to the Crowned Pillar 410
The Wit and Wisdom of the Queen 410
Jane Seager • From The Divine Prophecies of the Ten
Sibyls (1589)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 411
Libica 412
[Concluding Address "To Queen Elizabeth"] 412
Anonymous • A Peddler's Tale (1591) 412
A Return to Summer Progresses 415
Anonymous • The Entertainment at Elvetham (1 591) 417
Queen Elizabeth • Latin Oration at Oxford University (1592) 433
PART EIGHT: A CHANGING COURT AND AGING
QUEEN (1592-1597)
Historical Background 435
Breaking with Old Favorites and Friends 437
Sir Walter Ralegh • Poems from Prison (ca. 1592)
[If Cynthia Be a Queen] 439
[My Body in the Walls Captived] 439
From The Twenty-First and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 439
Queen Elizabeth • Works of Sorrow and Consolation (1593)
[Letter to Henry IV of France] 452
From Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy 453
New Faces on Accession Day 456
William Seagar • From Honor, Military and Civil (1602)
[The Retirement of the Queen's Champion, Sir Henry
Lee, November 17, 1590] 459
George Peele • From Anglorum Feriae, England's
Holidays (1595) 462
Henry Peacham • On Essex's Accession Day Tournament
Impresa, 1595(1612) 468
Francis Bacon • Of Love and Self-Love, An Accession
Day Entertainment (1595) 469
The Woman behind the Mask 476
Sir John Harington • From Most Elegant and Witty
Epigrams (ca. 1 589-98)
Against Pius Quintus, that Excommunicated Queen
Elizabeth 477
To the Queen's Majesty, When She Found Fault
with Some Particular Matters in Misacmos's
Metamorphosis 478
To the Ladies of the Queen's Privy Chamber, at the
Making of Their Perfumed Privy at Richmond 478
Against Linus, a Writer, That Found Fault with the
Metamorphosis 479
Of Soothsaying, to the Queen of England 479
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John Lyly • From The Woman in the Moon (ca. 1591—95) 479
Henry Lok • A Square in Verse (1593) 480
Andre Hurault, Sieur de Maisse • A Private Audience with
Elizabeth (1597) 483
PART NINE: IRELAND, REBELLION, AND THE
PASSING OF THE QUEEN (1598-1603)
Historical Background 487
Tyrone's Rebellion and the Fall of Essex 489
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex • It Was a Time When
Silly Bees Could Speak (1598) 490
Queen Elizabeth • Documents on the War (1599)
The Queen Majesty's Proclamation Declaring Her Princely
Resolution in Sending Over of Her Army into the
Realm of Ireland 491
Letter to Essex in Ireland 493
Sir John Harington • On the Irish Campaign, the Fall
of Essex, and the Queen (1599-1618)
From a Letter to Robert Markham 496
From a Letter to Sir Anthony Standen 498
From Brief Notes and Remembrances 499
From Epigrams
Of the Earl of Essex 499
Of Misacmos's Success in a Suit 500
The Author to Queen Elizabeth, in Praise of Her Reading 500
Queen Elizabeth • Proclamation on the Seizure of the
Earls of Essex, Rutland, and Southampton for
Rebellion (1601) 500
The Queen in Her Final Glory 502
Queen Elizabeth • The Golden Speech (1601)
[The Townshend version] 503
[The official version] 5°5
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke • From the
Sidney Psalms (1593-1600)
[Even Now That Care] 507
Psalm 72 510
Anonymous • Front the Geneva Bible (1560)
Psalm 72 512
Francis Bacon • Three Letters Accompanying New Year's
Gifts to the Queen (ca. 1594-1602) 513
Anonymous • Ode of Cynthia (1602) 514
John Davies • Verses of the Queen (1602) 515
Elizabeth's Decline and Death 516
Sir John Harington • Letter to Lady Mary Harington (1602) 517
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland • From a Letter to
King James on Elizabeth's Decline (1603) 519
Robert Carey • From Memoirs of Robert Carey (ca. 1626)
The Queen's Last Sickness and Death 521
Contents xv
Elizabeth Southwell • A True Relation of What Succeeded
at the Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth (1607) 524
England in Mourning 527
Thomas Dekker • From The Wonderful Year (1603)
[The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth] 527
Thomas Newton From Atropoi'on Delion, or the Death
of Delia (1603) 530
Anonymous • A Mournful Ditty, Entitled Elizabeth's
Loss (1603) 531
Henry Petowe • From Eliza's Funeral (1603)
From A Few April Drops Showered on the Hearse of
Dead Eliza 534
Eulogies and the End of an Age 535
William Shakespeare • Sonnet 107 [Not Mine Own Fears,
nor the Prophetic Soul] (ca. 1603) 536
Michael Drayton • Sonnet 51 [Calling to Mind, Since
First My Love Begun] (1605) 537
Michael Drayton • From The Muses' Elizium (1630)
The Description of Elyzium 537
Anonymous • Gone is Elizabeth (161 2) 541
Lady Diana Primrose • A Chain of Pearl, or A Memorial
of Queen Elizabeth (1630) 541
PART TEN: LINGERING IMAGES OF THE QUEEN
Historical Background 551
A Queen of Many Guises 552
Thomas Dekker • From Old Fortunatus (1600)
The Prologue at Court 552
Sir Walter Ralegh • Now We Have Present Made
(ca. 1582-87) 554
Elizabeth as Shepherdess 555
Edmund Spenser • From The Shepherd's Calendar (1 579)
To His Book 557
April 557
Michael Drayton • Rowland's Song in Praise of the Fairest
Beta (1594) 563
Man' Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke • A Dialogue
Between Two Shepherds Thenot and Piers, in Praise of
Astraea (ca. 1599) 565
Elizabeth as Petrarchan Mistress 567
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1 579)
[A riddle of the princess paragon] 569
[The assoil at large moralized in three dizains] 570
Sir Philip Sidney • From the Old Arcadia (ca. 1579-80)
Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light 571
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Henry Constable • To the Queen Touching the Cruel
Effects of Her Perfections (ca. 1 589) 576
John Lyly • "A Ditty" from an Entertainment at Cowdray (1591) 576
Elizabeth as Goddess of the Moon 577
Sir Walter Ralegh • Praised be Diana's Fair and
Harmless Light (ca. 1582-87) 578
Edmund Spenser • From. The Faerie Queene, Book 2 (1596)
[Braggadoccio and Trompart encounter Belphoebe] 579
George Chapman • From Hymnus in Cynthiam (1 594) 585
Richard Barnfield • From Cynthia (1 595)
To His Mistress 587
Cynthia 587
Anonymous • My Thoughts Are Winged with Hopes (1 597) 592
Benjonson • "Hymn" to Cynthia (1601) 593
Elizabeth as the Fairy Queen 593
Sir Walter Ralegh • A Vision upon This Conceit of the Fairy
Queen (1590) 594
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1590)
[Prince Arthur's vision of Gloriana] 595
[The Red Cross Knight's vision of the New Jerusalem and of
Gloriana's city of Cleopolis] 597
From Amoretti (1595)
Sonnet 74 [Most Happy Letters Framed by Skillful Trade] 599
Sonnet 80 [After So Long a Race As I Have Run] 600
Elizabeth as the Goddess of Justice 600
George Peele • From Descensus Astraeae (1591) 601
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
Proem 603
[Astraea instructs Artegall injustice and abandons
the earth] 605
John Davies • From Hymns of Astraea (1 599) 608
Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen 616
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1579)
[That her Majesty surmounteth all the princesses of
our time] 618
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke • From Caelica (1590s)
Sonnet 81 [Under a Throne I Saw a Virgin Sit] 618
William Shakespeare • From A Midsummer Night's
Dream (ca. 1595-96) 619
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
[Prince Arthur and Artegall enter the Court and
behold Mercilla] 620
Anonymous • Britanniae Lachrimae (1603) 623
Contents xvii
Commentary and Criticism 625
PART ELEVEN: REMEMBERING ELIZABETH: EARLY
ACCOUNTS OF THE QUEEN (1577-1848)
An Early Chronicle 627
Raphael Holinshed • From The Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland (1 577) 627
Recollections by Those Who Knew the Queen 630
Sir John Harington • From Reminiscences of the
Queen from a Letter to Robert Markham (1606) 631
Sir Francis Bacon • From The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth
and Her Times (1608) 633
Early Histories and Biographies 636
William Camden • From The History of the Life and
Reign of . Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (1617) 637
Sir Robert Naunton • From Fragmenta Regalia, or
Observations on the Late Queen Elizabeth (1634) 640
Sir John Hayward • From The Beginning of the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth (1636) 642
Antiquarian Biographies 643
Edmund Bohun • From The Character of Queen
Elizabeth (1693) 645
George Ballard • From Memoirs of Several Ladies of
Great Britain (1752) 647
Agnes Strickland • From Lives of the Queens of
England (1848) 649
PART TWELVE: MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICISM
Abbreviations 654
Elizabeth's Strategies for Rule 655
J. E. Neale • The Affability of Their Prince 655
David Loades • The Great Queen 659
Natalie Mears • [Queenship and Political Discourse] 674
The Virgin Monarch 683
Susan Doran • Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry? 683
The Queen's Religious Position 696
Patrick Collinson • Windows in a Woman's Soul 696
The Poems and Speeches of Elizabeth 712
Ilona Bell • Elizabeth Tudor: Poet 712
George P. Rice, Jr. • The Speaker and the Speeches 728
The Progresses and Entertainments 737
J. E. Neale • [The Annual Round of Entertainments] 737
Mary Hill Cole • [Politics on Summer Progress] 738
Zillah Dovey • [Managing the Royal Entourage] 741
xviii Contents
The Queen's Portraits 746
Sir Roy Strong • [Depicting Gloriana] 746
Elizabeth in Literature 770
John N. King • [Representing the Virgin Queen] 770
Jeffrey Knapp • [Empress of England and America] 790
Frances A. Yates • [England's Astraea] 802
Criticizing Elizabeth 816
Carole Levin • [Royal Wanton and Whore] 816
Donald Stump • [Protestant Voices of Dissent] 838
The Queen on Film 853
Thomas Betteridge • A Queen for All Seasons 853
Selected Bibliography 867
Glossary of Names 881
Contents
Preface
xix
Introduction
xxi
Editorial Principles
xxv
Illustrations
xxvii
The Texts of Elizabeth I and Her Age
ι
PART ONE: THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH
(1533-1558)
Historical Background
3
Parentage and Infancy
5
John
Foxe
·
From Acts and Monuments
(1583)
[Henry
VIII
and Anne Boleyn]
7
[The birth and baptism of Elizabeth]
10
[The deaths of the Lady
Katherine
and of Queen Anne]
12
William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
·
From The Famous
History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
(1613) 14
Princess and Prodigy
15
Princess Elizabeth
·
Letter of Dedication to
Katherine
Parr
(1544) 17
John Bale
·
From A Godly Meditation of the
Christian Soul
(1548) 18
Princess Elizabeth
·
Verse Translation of the Thirteenth
Psalm of David
(1548) 23
The Church of England
·
Psalm
13
from the Great
Bible
(1540) 24
Roger Ascham
·
From The Schoolmaster
(1570) 24
Threats and Imprisonment
25
Princess Elizabeth
·
Letter to Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector
(1549) 27
Princess Elizabeth
·
Writings in Captivity
Letter to Mary Tudor
(1554) 29
[Oh Fortune, Thy Wresting Wavering State]
(1555) 30
[Twas Christ the Word]
(1554-55?) 30
[No Crooked Leg]
(1558?) 31
Prayers
(1554) 31
John
Foxe
·
From Acts and Monuments
The Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer
(1583) 32
The Miraculous Preservation of Lady Elizabeth
(1563) 37
[The Curious Incident of the Goat]
(1583) 39
Retrospectives on Mary and
Elizabeth 40
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth,
Part One
(1605) 43
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
1 (1590)
[Arthur attacks the giant
Orgoglio,
and Duessa comes
to the giant's aid]
67
PART TWO: CORONATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF
LEGITIMACY, RELIGION, AND SUCCESSION
(1559-1566)
Historical Background
73
The New Queen
74
Queen Elizabeth
·
Early Speeches
(1558)
Words Spoken by Her Majesty to Master Cecil
75
Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords
76
Questions Concerning the Legitimacy of Female Rule
76
John Knox
·
From The First Blast of the Trumpet
(1558)
jj
John Aylmer
·
From An Harbor for Faithful and True
Subjects
(1559) 83
The Coronation Pageants
88
Richard Mulcaster
·
From The Passage of Our Most Dread
Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth
(1559) 91
Prayers and Exhortations
108
The Church Of England
·
From The Book of Common
Prayer
(1559)
A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty no
Anonymous
·
From A Form of Prayer to be Used in Private
Houses Every Morning and Evening
(1562)
no
The Church of England
·
From The First Book of
Homilies
(1559)
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and
Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates no
William Whittingham
·
From The Dedicatory Epistle to the
Geneva Bible
(1560) 114
Anne Vaughan Lock
·
From Sermons of John Calvin upon
the Song that Hezekiah Made
(1560)
From The Dedicatory Epistle
116
From A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
118
Queen Elizabeth
·
Prayers from Precationes Privatae
(1563) 121
Questions at Home and Wars Abroad
123
Queen Elizabeth
·
First Speech before Parliament
(1559) 125
Answer to the Commons' Petition That She Marry
(1563) 127
Proclamation on the Return of Soldiers from
Newhaven
(1563) 128
Elizabeth among Her People
131
Queen Elizabeth
·
Latin Oration at Cambridge
(1564) 131
William Birch
·
A Song between the Queen's Majesty and
England
(1564) 132
PART THREE: MARY STUART, THE NORTHERN REBELLION,
AND PROTESTANT DISCONTENT
(1567-1571)
Historical Background
137
The Matter of Mary Stuart
138
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to Mary Stuart
(1567) 141
Bishop John Lesley
·
From A Defense of the Honor of the
Princess Mary, Queen of Scotland
(1569) 144
The Rerellion of the Northern Earls
148
Queen Elizabeth
·
Proclamation against the Earl of
Northumberland
(1569) 150
Letter to Mary Stuart
(1570) 152
Pope Pius V
·
The Bull of Excommunication against
Elizabeth
(1570) 155
Thomas Norton
·
From A Disclosing of the Great Bull
(1570) 158
Protestant Protests and Prayers
161
Edward
Dering
·
From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen's Majesty [The "Unruly Heifer" Sermon]
( 1570) 162
John Conway
·
From Meditations and Prayers
(1571) 167
Attributed to Queen Elizabeth
·
From Christian Prayers and
Meditations
(1569) 168
Mary Stuart and the Ridolfi Plot
168
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letter to Thomas Smith, Authorizing the
Torture of Two Prisoners
(1571) 171
The Doubt of Future Foes
(1570?) 171
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
[Britomart's dream at
Isis
Church and her rescue of
Artegall from Radigund and the Amazons]
172
PART FOUR: CHANGING ALLIANCES
(1572-1577)
Historical Background
183
Prospects of Marriage and Trouble in France
184
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to Sir Francis Walsingham
(1572) 186
The Church of England
·
From A Form of Common
Prayer
(1572)
A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Preservation of the
Queen and The Realm
191
A Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
191
Elizabeth on Summer Progress
192
Anonymous
·
The First Anointed Queen I Am
(1573) 195
George Gascoigne and others
·
The Princely Pleasures at
Kenilworth Castle
(1575) 195
"Robert Laneham" ·
From
A
Letter
of the Entertainment at
Killingworth
(1575) 222
Prayers, Advice, and Praise for the Queen
226
Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit
·
From Morning and Evening
Prayers
(1574) 228
Edward Hake
·
From A Commemoration of the Most
Prosperous and Peaceable Reign of Our Gracious and
Dear Sovereign Lady Elizabeth
(1575) 228
James Sanford
·
From Hours of Recreation, or
Afterdinners (1576) 231
Nicholas Hilliard
·
From A Treatise Concerning the Art of
Limning (ca. 1570s)
234
Edward
de Vere,
Earl of Oxford
·
What Cunning Can
Express (ca.
1576) 234
PART FIVE: THE FRENCH MARRIAGE
NEGOTIATIONS
(1578-1582)
Historical Background
237
The Queen, the French Ambassadors, and the
Visit to Norwich
238
Bernard Garter and William Goldingham
·
The Joyful
Receiving of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty into
Her Highness's City of Norwich
(1578) 240
Richard Topcliffe
·
From Letter to the Earl of
Shrewsbury
(1578) 264
Elizabeth,
Anjou,
and the Debate at Court
266
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to the Duke of
Anjou
and
Catherine
de
Medici
( 15 79-82) 267
William Cecil, Lord Burghley
·
Letter to the Queen
Regarding Her Proposed Marriage
( 1579) 274
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From A Discourse of Sir Philip
Sidney to the Queen's Majesty Touching Her Marriage
with Monsieur
(1579) 277
The Widening Controversy
281
William Elderton
·
A New Ballad, Declaring the Dangerous
Shooting of the Gun at the Court
( 1579) 283
John
Stubbs
·
From The Discovery of A Gaping Gulf
(1579) 287
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From Arcadia (ca.
1579-80)
[As I my Little Flock on
Ister Bank] 295
Christopher Marlowe
·
From The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of
Carthage (ca.
1581-86) 300
Support for the Queen
302
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
A very strange and rueful vision
303
Another vision
303
John Lyly
·
From Euphues and His England
(1580) 304
Thomas Blenerhasset
·
From
A
Revelation of the True
Minerva
(1582)
[Mercury prophesies concerning the kingdom of the
true Minerva]
306
[Mercury characterizes the Queen]
306
[The Muse Clio praises Elizabeth as a goddess immune to
misfortune]
307
Anjou's Departure and the Queen's Grief
308
Queen Elizabeth
·
Poem and Prayers (ca.
1579-82)
[I Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent]
309
From The Queen's Prayerbook
309
PART SIX: COURTIERS, ASSASSINS, AND THE DEATH
OF MARY STUART
(1582-1587)
Historical Background
313
Cupid at Court
315
Queen Elizabeth
·
Reflections on Love and Growing
Older (ca. 1580s)
[When I Was Fair and Young]
316
[Now Leave and Let Me Rest]
317
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Love Poems to the Queen
(ca.
1582-89)
[Our Passions Are Most Like to Floods and Streams]
318
[Sweet Are the Thoughts]
319
[Calling to Mind Mine Eye Long Went About]
319
[Verse Exchange with the Queen
(1587)] 320
[Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired]
321
Celebrations on Accession Day
321
Thomas
Bentley
·
From The Monument of Matrons
(1582) 323
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From Arcadia (ca.
1584-85)
[The Joust between Philisides and Lelius]
330
George Peele
·
From The Arraignment of Paris
(1584) 332
Attacks and Assassination Attempts
334
Cardinal William Allen
·
From A True, Sincere, and Modest
Defense of English Catholics
(1584) 335
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two
(1606)
[The Assassination Attempt of William Parry]
338
The Church of England
·
From An Order of Prayer and
Thanksgiving for the Preservation of the Queen's Majesty's
Life and Safety
(1585) 342
The Execution of Mary Stuart
344
Queen Elizabeth
·
Speeches to Parliament
(1585-86)
[Speech at the Closing of Parliament]
347
[The First Answer to the New Parliament Concerning
Mary Stuart]
348
From The Second Answer Made by the Queen's Majesty
352
Mary
Stuart
· Letter
to
Henry
III
(1587) 353
Robert
Wyngfield
·
From A Circumstantial Account of the
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
(1587) 355
Adam
Blackwood ·
From History of Mary, Queen of
Scots
(1587) 358
Richard Fletcher
·
From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen Immediately after the Execution of the Queen
of Scots by the Dean of Peterborough
(1587) 361
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letter to James VI on the Execution of
His Mother
(1587) 371
King James VI
·
Reply to Elizabeth
(1587) 371
PART SEVEN: THE SPANISH ARMADA AND ITS AFTERMATH
(1588-1592)
Historical Background
373
Prophecies and Provocations
375
Cyprian
von Leowitz ·
From Of the End of This World
( 1564)
[A Prophecy of the "Wonderful Year"
1588] 376
Richard Harvey
·
From An Astrological Discourse
(1582)
[Another Prophecy]
376
Cardinal William Allen
·
From A Declaration of the
Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper
and Pretensed Queen of England
( 1588) 377
The Defeat of the Armada
378
James Aske
·
From Elizabetha Triumphans
(1588)
[The Defeat of the Armada]
378
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two
(1606)
[The Attack and Destruction of the Armada]
383
The Queen at Tilbury
390
Queen Elizabeth
·
Words of Defiance and Inspiration
(1588)
[Verse Exchange with Philip II]
392
[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]
392
Thomas Deloney
·
The Queen's Visiting of the Camp at
Tilbury
(1588) 393
James Aske
·
From Elizabetha Triumphans
(1588)
[The Queen at Tilbury]
397
Victory Celebrations
402
Queen Elizabeth
·
The Queen in Victory
(1588)
Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Overthrow of the
Spanish Navy
403
[Letter to James VI on the Fate of the Armada]
404
[Song on the Armada Victory]
405
The Church of England
·
From The Armada Liturgy
(1588)
A Psalm of Thanksgiving
405
A Collect of Thanksgiving
407
David Gwyn
·
In Commendation of Sir Francis Drake
(1588) 408
George Puttenham
·
From The Art of English Poesy
( 1589)
Her Majesty Resembled to the Crowned Pillar
410
The Wit and Wisdom of the Queen
410
Jane Seager
·
From The Divine Prophecies of the Ten
Sibyls
(1589)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
411
Libica
412
[Concluding Address "To Queen Elizabeth"]
412
Anonymous
·
A Peddler's Tale
(1591) 412
A Return to Summer Progresses
415
Anonymous
·
The Entertainment at Elvetham
(1591) 417
Queen Elizabeth
·
Latin Oration at Oxford University
(1592) 433
PART EIGHT: A CHANGING COURT AND AGING
QUEEN
(1592-1597)
Historical Background
435
Breaking with Old Favorites and Friends
437
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Poems from Prison (ca.
1592)
[If Cynthia Be a Queen]
439
[My Body in the Walls Captived]
439
From The Twenty-First and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia
439
Queen Elizabeth
·
Works of Sorrow and Consolation
(1593)
[Letter to Henry IV of France]
452
From Translation ofBoethius's Consolation of Philosophy
453
New Faces on Accession Day
456
William Seagar
·
From Honor, Military and Civil
(1602)
[The Retirement of the Queen's Champion, Sir Henry
Lee, November
17, 1590] 459
George Peele
·
From Anglorum Feriae, England's
Holidays
(1595) 462
Henry Peacham
·
On Essex's Accession Day Tournament
Impresa,
1595 (1612) 468
Francis Bacon
·
Of Love and Self-Love, An Accession
Day Entertainment
(1595) 469
The Woman behind the Mask
476
Sir John Harington
·
From Most Elegant and Witty
Epigrams (ca.
1589-98)
Against Pius Quintus, that Excommunicated Queen
Elizabeth
477
To the Queen's Majesty, When She Found Fault
with Some Particular Matters in Misacmos's
Metamorphosis
47'8
To the Ladies of the Queen's Privy Chamber, at the
Making of Their Perfumed Privy at Richmond
478
Against Linus, a Writer, That Found Fault with the
Metamorphosis
479
Of Soothsaying, to the Queen of England
479
John Lyly
·
From The Woman in the Moon (ca.
1591-95) 479
Henry
Lok
·
A Square in Verse
(1593) 480
André
Hurault, Sieur
de Maisse ·
A Private Audience with
Elizabeth
(1597) 483
PART NINE: IRELAND, RERELLION, AND THE
PASSING OF THE QUEEN
(1598-1603)
Historical Background
487
Tyrone's Rebellion and the Fall of Essex
489
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
·
It Was a Time When
Silly Bees Could Speak
(1598) 490
Queen Elizabeth
·
Documents on the War
(1599)
The Queen Majesty's Proclamation Declaring Her Princely
Resolution in Sending Over of Her Army into the
Realm of Ireland
491
Letter to Essex in Ireland
493
Sir John Harington
·
On the Irish Campaign, the Fall
of Essex, and the Queen
(1599-1618)
From a Letter to Robert Markham
496
From a Letter to Sir Anthony
Standen 498
From Brief Notes and Remembrances
499
From Epigrams
Of the Earl of Essex
499
Of Misacmos's Success in a Suit
500
The Author to Queen Elizabeth, in Praise of Her Reading
500
Queen Elizabeth
·
Proclamation on the Seizure of the
Earls of Essex, Rutland, and Southampton for
Rebellion
(1601) 500
The Queen in Her Final Glory
502
Queen Elizabeth
·
The Golden Speech
(1601)
[The Townshend version]
503
[The official version]
505
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
·
From the
Sidney Psalms
(1593-1600)
[Even Now That Care]
507
Psalm
72 510
Anonymous
·
From the Geneva Bible
(1560)
Psalm
72 512
Francis Bacon
·
Three Letters Accompanying New Year's
Gifts to the Queen (ca.
1594-1602) 513
Anonymous
·
Ode of Cynthia
(1602) 514
John Davies
·
Verses of the Queen
(1602) 515
Elizabeth's Decline and Death
516
Sir John Harington
·
Letter to Lady Mary Harington
(1602) 517
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
·
From a Letter to
King James on Elizabeth's Decline
(1603) 519
Robert Carey
·
From Memoirs of Robert Carey (ca.
1626)
The Queen's Last Sickness and Death
521
Elizabeth
Southwell
·
A True Relation of What Succeeded
at the Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth
(1607) 524
England in Mourning
527
Thomas
Dekker
·
From The Wonderful Year
(1603)
[The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth]
527
Thomas Newton From
Atropoïon Delion,
or the Death
of Delia
(1603) 530
Anonymous
·
A Mournful Ditty, Entitled Elizabeth's
Loss
(1603) 531
Henry Petowe
·
From Eliza's Funeral
(1603)
From A Few April Drops Showered on the Hearse of
Dead Eliza
534
Eulogies and the End of an Age
535
William Shakespeare
·
Sonnet
107
[Not Mine Own Fears,
nor the Prophetic Soul] (ca.
1603) 536
Michael Drayton
·
Sonnet
51
[Calling to Mind, Since
First My Love Begun]
(1605) 537
Michael Drayton
·
From The Muses' Elizium
(1630)
The Description of Elyzium
537
Anonymous
·
Gone is Elizabeth
(1612) 541
Lady Diana Primrose
·
A Chain of Pearl, or A Memorial
of Queen Elizabeth
(1630) 541
PART TEN: LINGERING IMAGES OF THE QUEEN
Historical Background
551
A Queen of Many Guises
552
Thomas
Dekker
·
From Old
Fortunatus
( 1600)
The Prologue at Court
552
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Now We Have Present Made
(ca.
1582-87) 554
Elizabeth as Shepherdess
555
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Shepherd's Calendar
(1579)
To His Book
557
April ^
557
Michael Drayton
·
Rowland's Song in Praise of the Fairest
Beta
(1594) 563
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
·
A Dialogue
Between Two Shepherds Thenot and Piers, in Praise of
Astraea (ca.
1599) 565
Elizabeth as Petrarchan Mistress
567
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
[A riddle of the princess paragon]
569
[The assoil at large moralized in three dizains]
570
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From the Old Arcadia (ca.
1579-80)
Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light
571
Henry
Constable
·
To the Queen Touching the Cruel
Effects of Her Perfections (ca.
1589) 576
John Lyly
·
"A Ditty" from an Entertainment at Cowdray
(1591) 576
Elizabeth as Goddess of the Moon
577
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Praised be Diana's Fair and
Harmless Light (ca.
1582-87) 578
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
2 (1596)
[Braggadoccio and Trompart encounter Belphoebe]
579
George Chapman
·
From
Hymnus
in
Cyn
thiam
(1594) 585
Richard Barnfield
·
From Cynthia
(1595)
To His Mistress
587
Cynthia
587
Anonymous
·
My Thoughts Are Winged with Hopes
(1597) 592
Ben
Jonson
·
"Hymn" to Cynthia
(1601) 593
Elizabeth as the Fairy Queen
593
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
A Vision upon This Conceit of the Fairy
Queen
(1590) 594
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
1 (1590)
[Prince Arthur's vision of Gloriana]
595
[The Red Cross Knight's vision of the New Jerusalem and of
Gloriana's city of Cleopolis]
597
From
Amoretti
(1595)
Sonnet
74
[Most Happy Letters Framed by Skillful Trade]
599
Sonnet
80
[After So Long a Race As I Have Run]
600
Elizabeth as the Goddess of Justice
600
George Peele
·
From Descensus Astraeae
(1591) 601
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
Proem
603
[Astraea instructs Artegall in justice and abandons
the earth]
605
John Davies
·
From Hymns of Astraea
(1599) 608
Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen
616
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
[That her Majesty surmounteth all the princesses of
our time]
618
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke
·
From Caelica (1590s)
Sonnet
81
[Under a Throne I Saw a Virgin Sit]
618
William Shakespeare
·
From A Midsummer Night's
Dream (ca.
1595-96) 619
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
[Prince Arthur and Artegall enter the Court and
behold Mercilla]
620
Anonymous
·
Britanniáé Lachrimae
(1603) 623
Commentary and Criticism
625
PART ELEVEN: REMEMBERING ELIZABETH: EARLY
ACCOUNTS OF THE QUEEN
(1577-1848)
An Early Chronicle
627
Raphael Holinshed
·
From The Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland
(1577) 627
Recollections by Those Who Knew the Queen
630
Sir John Harington
·
From Reminiscences of the
Queen from a Letter to Robert Markham
(1606) 631
Sir Francis Bacon
·
From The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth
and Her Times
(1608) 633
Early Histories and Biographies
636
William Camden
·
From The History of the Life and
Reign of
.
Elizabeth, Late Queen of England
(1617) 637
Sir Robert Naunton
·
From
Fragmenta
Regalia, or
Observations on the Late Queen Elizabeth
(1634) 640
Sir John Hayward
·
From The Beginning of the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth
(1636) 642
Antiquarian Biographies
643
Edmund Bohun
·
From The Character of Queen
Elizabeth
(1693) 645
George Ballard
·
From Memoirs of Several Ladies of
Great Britain
(1752) 647
Agnes Strickland
·
From Lives of the Queens of
England
(1848) 649
PART TWELVE: MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICISM
Abbreviations
654
Elizabeth's Strategies for Rule
655
J. E. Neale
·
The Affability of Their Prince
655
David Loades
·
The Great Queen
659
Natalie Mears
·
[Queenship and Political Discourse]
674
The Virgin Monarch
683
Susan
Doran
·
Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?
683
The Queen's Religious Position
696
Patrick Collinson
·
Windows in a Woman's Soul
696
The Poems and Speeches of Elizabeth
712
Ilona Bell ·
Elizabeth Tudor: Poet
712
George P. Rice, Jr.
·
The Speaker and the Speeches
728
The Progresses and Entertainments
737
J. E. Neale
·
[The Annual Round of Entertainments]
737
Mary Hill Cole
·
[Politics on Summer Progress]
738
Zillah Dovey
·
[Managing the Royal Entourage]
741
The Queen's Portraits
746
Sir Roy Strong
·
[Depicting
Gloriane]
746
Elizabeth in Literature
770
John
N.
King
·
[Representing the Virgin Queen]
770
Jeffrey
Knapp ·
[Empress of England and America]
790
Frances
A. Yates
·
[England's Astraea]
802
Criticizing Elizabeth
816
Carole Levin
·
[Royal Wanton and Whore]
816
Donald Stump
·
[Protestant Voices of Dissent]
838
The Queen on Film
853
Thomas Betteridge
·
A Queen for All Seasons
853
Selected Bibliography
867
Glossary of Names
881 |
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Titel: Elizabeth I and her age
Autor: Stump, Donald V.
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface xix
Introduction xxi
Editorial Principles xxv
Illustrations xxvii
The Texts of Elizabeth I and Her Age i
PART ONE. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH (1533-1558)
Historical Background 3
Parentage and Infancy 5
John Foxe • From Acts and Monuments (1583)
[Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn] 7
[The birth and baptism of Elizabeth] 10
[The deaths of the Lady Katherine and of Queen Anne] 12
William Shakespeare and John Fletcher • From The Famous
History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth (1613) 14
Princess and Prodigy 15
Princess Elizabeth • Letter of Dedication to Katherine
Parr (1544) 17
John Bale • From A Godly Meditation of the
Christian Soul (1548) 18
Princess Elizabeth • Verse Translation of the Thirteenth
Psalm of David (1548) 23
The Church of England • Psalm 13 from the Great
Bible (1540) 24
Roger Ascham • From The Schoolmaster (1 570) 24
Threats and Imprisonment 25
Princess Elizabeth • Letter to Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector (1549) 27
Princess Elizabeth • Writings in Captivity
Letter to Mary Tudor (1554) 29
[Oh Fortune, Thy Wresting Wavering State] (1555) 30
[Twas Christ the Word] (1 554-55?) 30
[No Crooked Leg] (1558?) 31
Prayers (1554) 31
John Foxe • From Acts and Monuments
The Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer (1583) 32
The Miraculous Preservation of Lady Elizabeth (1563) 37
[The Curious Incident of the Goat] (1583) 39
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Retrospectives on Mary and Elizabeth 40
Thomas Hevwood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth,
Part One (1605) 43
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1590)
[Arthur attacks the giant Orgoglio, and Duessa comes
to the giant's aid] 67
PART TWO: CORONATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF
LEGITIMACY, RELIGION, AND SUCCESSION (1559-1566)
Historical Background 73
The New Queen 74
Queen Elizabeth • Early Speeches (1558)
Words Spoken by Her Majesty to Master Cecil 75
Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords 76
Questions Concerning the Legitimacy of Female Rule 76
John Knox • From The First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) 77
John Aylmer • From An Harbor for Faithful and True
Subjects (1559) 83
The Coronation Pageants 88
Richard Mulcaster • From The Passage of Our Most Dread
Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth (1559) 91
Prayers and Exhortations 108
The Church Of England • From The Book of Common
Prayer (1559)
A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty no
Anonymous • From A Form of Prayer to be Used in Private
Houses Every Morning and Evening (1562) no
The Church of England • From The First Book of
Homilies (1559)
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and
Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates n°
William Whittingham • From The Dedicatory Epistle to the
Geneva Bible (1560) 114
Anne Vaughan Lock • From Sermons of John Calvin upon
the Song that Hezekiah Made (1560)
From The Dedicatory Epistle 116
From A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner 118
Queen Elizabeth • Prayers from Precationes Privatae (1563) 121
Questions at Home and Wars Abroad 123
Queen Elizabeth • First Speech before Parliament (1559) 125
Answer to the Commons' Petition That She Marry (1563) 127
Proclamation on the Return of Soldiers from
Newhaven (1563) 128
Contents ix
Elizabeth among Her People 131
Queen Elizabeth • Latin Oration at Cambridge (1564) 131
William Birch • A Song between the Queen's Majesty and
England (1564) ' 132
PART THREE: MARY STUART, THE NORTHERN REBELLION,
AND PROTESTANT DISCONTENT (1567-1571)
Historical Background
'37
The Matter of Mary Stuart 138
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to Mary Stuart (1 567) 141
Bishop John Lesley • From A Defense of the Honor of the
Princess Mary, Queen of Scotland (1569) 144
The Rebellion of the Northern Earls 148
Queen Elizabeth • Proclamation against the Earl of
Northumberland (1569) 150
Letter to Mary Stuart (1570) 152
Pope Pius V • The Bull of Excommunication against
Elizabeth (1570) 155
Thomas Norton • From A Disclosing of the Great Bull (1570) 158
Protestant Protests and Prayers 161
Edward Dering • From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen's Majesty [The "Unruly Heifer" Sermon] (1570) 162
John Conway • From Meditations and Prayers (1571) 167
Attributed to Queen Elizabeth • From Christian Prayers and
Meditations (1569) 168
Mary Stuart and the Ridolfi Plot 168
Queen Elizabeth • Letter to Thomas Smith, Authorizing the
Torture of Two Prisoners (1571) 171
The Doubt of Future Foes (15 70?) 171
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
[Britomart's dream at Isis Church and her rescue of
Artegall from Radigund and the Amazons] 172
PART FOUR: CHANGING ALLIANCES (1572-1577)
Historical Background 183
Prospects of Marriage and Trouble in France 184
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to Sir Francis Walsingham (1572) 186
The Church of England • From A Form of Common
Prayer (1572)
A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Preservation of the
Queen and The Realm 191
A Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies igi
Elizabeth on Summer Progress 192
Anonymous • The First Anointed Queen I Am (1573) 195
George Gascoigne and others • The Princely Pleasures at
Kenilworth Castle (15 7 5) 195
Contents
"Robert Laneham" • From A Letter of the Entertainment at
Killingworth (1575) 222
Prayers, Advice, and Praise for the Queen 226
Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit • From Morning and Evening
Prayers (1574) 228
Edward Hake • From A Commemoration of the Most
Prosperous and Peaceable Reign of Our Gracious and
Dear Sovereign Lady Elizabeth (1575) 228
James Sanford • From Hours of Recreation, or
Afterdinners (1576) 231
Nicholas Hilliard • From A Treatise Concerning the Art of
Limning (ca. 1570s) 234
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford • What Cunning Can
Express (ca. 1576) 234
PART FIVE: THE FRENCH MARRIAGE
NEGOTIATIONS (1578-1582)
Historical Background 237
The Queen, the French Amrassadors, and the
Visit to Norwich 238
Bernard Garter and William Goldingham • The Joyful
Receiving of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty into
Her Highness's City of Norwich (1578) 240
Richard Topcliffe • From Letter to the Earl of
Shrewsbury (1578) 264
Elizabeth, Anjou, and the Debate at Court 266
Queen Elizabeth • Letters to the Duke of Anjou and
Catherine de Medici (1579-82) 267
William Cecil, Lord Burghley • Letter to the Queen
Regarding Her Proposed Marriage (1579) 274
Sir Philip Sidney • From A Discourse of Sir Philip
Sidney to the Queen's Majesty Touching Her Marriage
with Monsieur (1579) 277
The Widening Controversy 281
William Elderton • A New Ballad, Declaring the Dangerous
Shooting of the Gun at the Court (1579) 283
John Stubbs • From The Discovery of A Gaping Gulf (1579) 287
Sir Philip Sidney • From Arcadia (ca. 1579-80)
[As I my Little Flock on Ister Bank] 295
Christopher Marlowe • From The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of
Carthage (ca. 1581-86) 300
Support for the Queen 302
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1579)
A very strange and rueful vision 3°3
Another vision 303
John Lyly • From Euphues and His England (1580) 304
Contents xi
Thomas Blenerhasset • From A Revelation of the True
Minerva (1582)
[Mercury prophesies concerning the kingdom of the
true Minerva] 306
[Mercury characterizes the Queen] 306
[The Muse Clio praises Elizabeth as a goddess immune to
misfortune] 307
Anjou's Departure and the Queen's Grief 308
Queen Elizabeth • Poem and Prayers (ca. 1579-82)
[I Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent] 309
From The Queen's Prayerbook 309
PART SIX: COURTIERS, ASSASSINS, AND THE DEATH
OF MARY STUART (1582-1587)
Historical Background 313
Cupid at Court 315
Queen Elizabeth • Reflections on Love and Growing
Older (ca. 1580s)
[When I Was Fair and Young] 316
[Now Leave and Let Me Rest] 317
Sir Walter Ralegh • Love Poems to the Queen
(ca. 1582-89)
[Our Passions Are Most Like to Floods and Streams] 318
[Sweet Are the Thoughts] 319
[Calling to Mind Mine Eye Long Went About] 319
[Verse Exchange with the Queen (1 587)] 310
[Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired] 321
Celebrations on Accession Day 321
Thomas Bentley • From The Monument of Matrons (1582) 323
Sir Philip Sidney • From Arcadia (ca. 1584-85)
[The Joust between Philisides and Lelius] 330
George Peele • From The Arraignment of Paris (1584) 332
Attacks and Assassination Attempts 334
Cardinal William Allen • From A True, Sincere, and Modest
Defense of English Catholics (I 584) 335
Thomas Heywood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two (1606)
[The Assassination Attempt of William Parry] 338
The Church of England • From An Order of Prayer and
Thanksgiving for the Preservation of the Queen's Majesty's
Life and Safety (1585) 342
The Execution of Mary Stuart 344
Queen Elizabeth • Speeches to Parliament (1585-86)
[Speech at the Closing of Parliament] 347
[The First Answer to the New Parliament Concerning
Mary Stuart] 348
From The Second Answer Made by the Queen's Majesty 352
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Mary Stuart • Letter to Henry III (1587) 353
Robert Wyngfield • From A Circumstantial Account of the
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) 355
Adam Blackwood • From History of Mary, Queen of
Scots (1587) 358
Richard Fletcher • From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen Immediately after the Execution of the Queen
of Scots by the Dean of Peterborough (1587) 361
Queen Elizabeth • Letter to James VI on the Execution of
His Mother (1587) 371
King James VI • Reply to Elizabeth (1587) 371
PART SEVEN: THE SPANISH ARMADA AND ITS AFTERMATH
(1588-1592)
Historical Rackground 373
Prophecies and Provocations 375
Cyprian von Leowitz • From Of the End of This World (1564)
[A Prophecy of the "Wonderful Year" 1588] 376
Richard Harvey • From An Astrological Discourse (1582)
[Another Prophecy] 376
Cardinal William Allen • From A Declaration of the
Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper
and Pretensed Queen of England (1588) 377
The Defeat of the Armada 378
James Aske • From Elizabetha Triumphans (1588)
[The Defeat of the Armada] 378
Thomas Heywood • From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two (1606)
[The Attack and Destruction of the Armada] 3"3
The Queen at Tilbury 39°
Queen Elizabeth • Words of Defiance and Inspiration (1588)
[Verse Exchange with Philip II] 392
[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury] 392
Thomas Deloney • The Queen's Visiting of the Camp at
Tilbury (1588) 393
James Aske • From Elizabetha Triumphans (1588)
[The Queen at Tilbury] 397
Victory Celebrations 402
Queen Elizabeth • The Queen in Victory (1588)
Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Overthrow of the
Spanish Navy 4°3
[Letter to James VI on the Fate of the Armada] 4°4
[Song on the Armada Victory] 4°5
The Church of England • From The Armada Liturgy (1588)
A Psalm of Thanksgiving 4°5
A Collect of Thanksgiving 4°7
David Gwyn • In Commendation of Sir Francis Drake (1588) 408
Contents xiii
George Puttenham • From The Art of English Poesy (1589)
Her Majesty Resembled to the Crowned Pillar 410
The Wit and Wisdom of the Queen 410
Jane Seager • From The Divine Prophecies of the Ten
Sibyls (1589)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 411
Libica 412
[Concluding Address "To Queen Elizabeth"] 412
Anonymous • A Peddler's Tale (1591) 412
A Return to Summer Progresses 415
Anonymous • The Entertainment at Elvetham (1 591) 417
Queen Elizabeth • Latin Oration at Oxford University (1592) 433
PART EIGHT: A CHANGING COURT AND AGING
QUEEN (1592-1597)
Historical Background 435
Breaking with Old Favorites and Friends 437
Sir Walter Ralegh • Poems from Prison (ca. 1592)
[If Cynthia Be a Queen] 439
[My Body in the Walls Captived] 439
From The Twenty-First and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 439
Queen Elizabeth • Works of Sorrow and Consolation (1593)
[Letter to Henry IV of France] 452
From Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy 453
New Faces on Accession Day 456
William Seagar • From Honor, Military and Civil (1602)
[The Retirement of the Queen's Champion, Sir Henry
Lee, November 17, 1590] 459
George Peele • From Anglorum Feriae, England's
Holidays (1595) 462
Henry Peacham • On Essex's Accession Day Tournament
Impresa, 1595(1612) 468
Francis Bacon • Of Love and Self-Love, An Accession
Day Entertainment (1595) 469
The Woman behind the Mask 476
Sir John Harington • From Most Elegant and Witty
Epigrams (ca. 1 589-98)
Against Pius Quintus, that Excommunicated Queen
Elizabeth 477
To the Queen's Majesty, When She Found Fault
with Some Particular Matters in Misacmos's
Metamorphosis 478
To the Ladies of the Queen's Privy Chamber, at the
Making of Their Perfumed Privy at Richmond 478
Against Linus, a Writer, That Found Fault with the
Metamorphosis 479
Of Soothsaying, to the Queen of England 479
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John Lyly • From The Woman in the Moon (ca. 1591—95) 479
Henry Lok • A Square in Verse (1593) 480
Andre Hurault, Sieur de Maisse • A Private Audience with
Elizabeth (1597) 483
PART NINE: IRELAND, REBELLION, AND THE
PASSING OF THE QUEEN (1598-1603)
Historical Background 487
Tyrone's Rebellion and the Fall of Essex 489
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex • It Was a Time When
Silly Bees Could Speak (1598) 490
Queen Elizabeth • Documents on the War (1599)
The Queen Majesty's Proclamation Declaring Her Princely
Resolution in Sending Over of Her Army into the
Realm of Ireland 491
Letter to Essex in Ireland 493
Sir John Harington • On the Irish Campaign, the Fall
of Essex, and the Queen (1599-1618)
From a Letter to Robert Markham 496
From a Letter to Sir Anthony Standen 498
From Brief Notes and Remembrances 499
From Epigrams
Of the Earl of Essex 499
Of Misacmos's Success in a Suit 500
The Author to Queen Elizabeth, in Praise of Her Reading 500
Queen Elizabeth • Proclamation on the Seizure of the
Earls of Essex, Rutland, and Southampton for
Rebellion (1601) 500
The Queen in Her Final Glory 502
Queen Elizabeth • The Golden Speech (1601)
[The Townshend version] 503
[The official version] 5°5
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke • From the
Sidney Psalms (1593-1600)
[Even Now That Care] 507
Psalm 72 510
Anonymous • Front the Geneva Bible (1560)
Psalm 72 512
Francis Bacon • Three Letters Accompanying New Year's
Gifts to the Queen (ca. 1594-1602) 513
Anonymous • Ode of Cynthia (1602) 514
John Davies • Verses of the Queen (1602) 515
Elizabeth's Decline and Death 516
Sir John Harington • Letter to Lady Mary Harington (1602) 517
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland • From a Letter to
King James on Elizabeth's Decline (1603) 519
Robert Carey • From Memoirs of Robert Carey (ca. 1626)
The Queen's Last Sickness and Death 521
Contents xv
Elizabeth Southwell • A True Relation of What Succeeded
at the Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth (1607) 524
England in Mourning 527
Thomas Dekker • From The Wonderful Year (1603)
[The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth] 527
Thomas Newton From Atropoi'on Delion, or the Death
of Delia (1603) 530
Anonymous • A Mournful Ditty, Entitled Elizabeth's
Loss (1603) 531
Henry Petowe • From Eliza's Funeral (1603)
From A Few April Drops Showered on the Hearse of
Dead Eliza 534
Eulogies and the End of an Age 535
William Shakespeare • Sonnet 107 [Not Mine Own Fears,
nor the Prophetic Soul] (ca. 1603) 536
Michael Drayton • Sonnet 51 [Calling to Mind, Since
First My Love Begun] (1605) 537
Michael Drayton • From The Muses' Elizium (1630)
The Description of Elyzium 537
Anonymous • Gone is Elizabeth (161 2) 541
Lady Diana Primrose • A Chain of Pearl, or A Memorial
of Queen Elizabeth (1630) 541
PART TEN: LINGERING IMAGES OF THE QUEEN
Historical Background 551
A Queen of Many Guises 552
Thomas Dekker • From Old Fortunatus (1600)
The Prologue at Court 552
Sir Walter Ralegh • Now We Have Present Made
(ca. 1582-87) 554
Elizabeth as Shepherdess 555
Edmund Spenser • From The Shepherd's Calendar (1 579)
To His Book 557
April 557
Michael Drayton • Rowland's Song in Praise of the Fairest
Beta (1594) 563
Man' Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke • A Dialogue
Between Two Shepherds Thenot and Piers, in Praise of
Astraea (ca. 1599) 565
Elizabeth as Petrarchan Mistress 567
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1 579)
[A riddle of the princess paragon] 569
[The assoil at large moralized in three dizains] 570
Sir Philip Sidney • From the Old Arcadia (ca. 1579-80)
Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light 571
Contents
Henry Constable • To the Queen Touching the Cruel
Effects of Her Perfections (ca. 1 589) 576
John Lyly • "A Ditty" from an Entertainment at Cowdray (1591) 576
Elizabeth as Goddess of the Moon 577
Sir Walter Ralegh • Praised be Diana's Fair and
Harmless Light (ca. 1582-87) 578
Edmund Spenser • From. The Faerie Queene, Book 2 (1596)
[Braggadoccio and Trompart encounter Belphoebe] 579
George Chapman • From Hymnus in Cynthiam (1 594) 585
Richard Barnfield • From Cynthia (1 595)
To His Mistress 587
Cynthia 587
Anonymous • My Thoughts Are Winged with Hopes (1 597) 592
Benjonson • "Hymn" to Cynthia (1601) 593
Elizabeth as the Fairy Queen 593
Sir Walter Ralegh • A Vision upon This Conceit of the Fairy
Queen (1590) 594
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1590)
[Prince Arthur's vision of Gloriana] 595
[The Red Cross Knight's vision of the New Jerusalem and of
Gloriana's city of Cleopolis] 597
From Amoretti (1595)
Sonnet 74 [Most Happy Letters Framed by Skillful Trade] 599
Sonnet 80 [After So Long a Race As I Have Run] 600
Elizabeth as the Goddess of Justice 600
George Peele • From Descensus Astraeae (1591) 601
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
Proem 603
[Astraea instructs Artegall injustice and abandons
the earth] 605
John Davies • From Hymns of Astraea (1 599) 608
Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen 616
George Puttenham • From Partheniads (1579)
[That her Majesty surmounteth all the princesses of
our time] 618
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke • From Caelica (1590s)
Sonnet 81 [Under a Throne I Saw a Virgin Sit] 618
William Shakespeare • From A Midsummer Night's
Dream (ca. 1595-96) 619
Edmund Spenser • From The Faerie Queene, Book 5 (1596)
[Prince Arthur and Artegall enter the Court and
behold Mercilla] 620
Anonymous • Britanniae Lachrimae (1603) 623
Contents xvii
Commentary and Criticism 625
PART ELEVEN: REMEMBERING ELIZABETH: EARLY
ACCOUNTS OF THE QUEEN (1577-1848)
An Early Chronicle 627
Raphael Holinshed • From The Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland (1 577) 627
Recollections by Those Who Knew the Queen 630
Sir John Harington • From Reminiscences of the
Queen from a Letter to Robert Markham (1606) 631
Sir Francis Bacon • From The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth
and Her Times (1608) 633
Early Histories and Biographies 636
William Camden • From The History of the Life and
Reign of . Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (1617) 637
Sir Robert Naunton • From Fragmenta Regalia, or
Observations on the Late Queen Elizabeth (1634) 640
Sir John Hayward • From The Beginning of the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth (1636) 642
Antiquarian Biographies 643
Edmund Bohun • From The Character of Queen
Elizabeth (1693) 645
George Ballard • From Memoirs of Several Ladies of
Great Britain (1752) 647
Agnes Strickland • From Lives of the Queens of
England (1848) 649
PART TWELVE: MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICISM
Abbreviations 654
Elizabeth's Strategies for Rule 655
J. E. Neale • The Affability of Their Prince 655
David Loades • The Great Queen 659
Natalie Mears • [Queenship and Political Discourse] 674
The Virgin Monarch 683
Susan Doran • Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry? 683
The Queen's Religious Position 696
Patrick Collinson • Windows in a Woman's Soul 696
The Poems and Speeches of Elizabeth 712
Ilona Bell • Elizabeth Tudor: Poet 712
George P. Rice, Jr. • The Speaker and the Speeches 728
The Progresses and Entertainments 737
J. E. Neale • [The Annual Round of Entertainments] 737
Mary Hill Cole • [Politics on Summer Progress] 738
Zillah Dovey • [Managing the Royal Entourage] 741
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The Queen's Portraits 746
Sir Roy Strong • [Depicting Gloriana] 746
Elizabeth in Literature 770
John N. King • [Representing the Virgin Queen] 770
Jeffrey Knapp • [Empress of England and America] 790
Frances A. Yates • [England's Astraea] 802
Criticizing Elizabeth 816
Carole Levin • [Royal Wanton and Whore] 816
Donald Stump • [Protestant Voices of Dissent] 838
The Queen on Film 853
Thomas Betteridge • A Queen for All Seasons 853
Selected Bibliography 867
Glossary of Names 881
Contents
Preface
xix
Introduction
xxi
Editorial Principles
xxv
Illustrations
xxvii
The Texts of Elizabeth I and Her Age
ι
PART ONE: THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH
(1533-1558)
Historical Background
3
Parentage and Infancy
5
John
Foxe
·
From Acts and Monuments
(1583)
[Henry
VIII
and Anne Boleyn]
7
[The birth and baptism of Elizabeth]
10
[The deaths of the Lady
Katherine
and of Queen Anne]
12
William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
·
From The Famous
History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
(1613) 14
Princess and Prodigy
15
Princess Elizabeth
·
Letter of Dedication to
Katherine
Parr
(1544) 17
John Bale
·
From A Godly Meditation of the
Christian Soul
(1548) 18
Princess Elizabeth
·
Verse Translation of the Thirteenth
Psalm of David
(1548) 23
The Church of England
·
Psalm
13
from the Great
Bible
(1540) 24
Roger Ascham
·
From The Schoolmaster
(1570) 24
Threats and Imprisonment
25
Princess Elizabeth
·
Letter to Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector
(1549) 27
Princess Elizabeth
·
Writings in Captivity
Letter to Mary Tudor
(1554) 29
[Oh Fortune, Thy Wresting Wavering State]
(1555) 30
[Twas Christ the Word]
(1554-55?) 30
[No Crooked Leg]
(1558?) 31
Prayers
(1554) 31
John
Foxe
·
From Acts and Monuments
The Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer
(1583) 32
The Miraculous Preservation of Lady Elizabeth
(1563) 37
[The Curious Incident of the Goat]
(1583) 39
Retrospectives on Mary and
Elizabeth 40
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth,
Part One
(1605) 43
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
1 (1590)
[Arthur attacks the giant
Orgoglio,
and Duessa comes
to the giant's aid]
67
PART TWO: CORONATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF
LEGITIMACY, RELIGION, AND SUCCESSION
(1559-1566)
Historical Background
73
The New Queen
74
Queen Elizabeth
·
Early Speeches
(1558)
Words Spoken by Her Majesty to Master Cecil
75
Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords
76
Questions Concerning the Legitimacy of Female Rule
76
John Knox
·
From The First Blast of the Trumpet
(1558)
jj
John Aylmer
·
From An Harbor for Faithful and True
Subjects
(1559) 83
The Coronation Pageants
88
Richard Mulcaster
·
From The Passage of Our Most Dread
Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth
(1559) 91
Prayers and Exhortations
108
The Church Of England
·
From The Book of Common
Prayer
(1559)
A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty no
Anonymous
·
From A Form of Prayer to be Used in Private
Houses Every Morning and Evening
(1562)
no
The Church of England
·
From The First Book of
Homilies
(1559)
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and
Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates no
William Whittingham
·
From The Dedicatory Epistle to the
Geneva Bible
(1560) 114
Anne Vaughan Lock
·
From Sermons of John Calvin upon
the Song that Hezekiah Made
(1560)
From The Dedicatory Epistle
116
From A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
118
Queen Elizabeth
·
Prayers from Precationes Privatae
(1563) 121
Questions at Home and Wars Abroad
123
Queen Elizabeth
·
First Speech before Parliament
(1559) 125
Answer to the Commons' Petition That She Marry
(1563) 127
Proclamation on the Return of Soldiers from
Newhaven
(1563) 128
Elizabeth among Her People
131
Queen Elizabeth
·
Latin Oration at Cambridge
(1564) 131
William Birch
·
A Song between the Queen's Majesty and
England
(1564) 132
PART THREE: MARY STUART, THE NORTHERN REBELLION,
AND PROTESTANT DISCONTENT
(1567-1571)
Historical Background
137
The Matter of Mary Stuart
138
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to Mary Stuart
(1567) 141
Bishop John Lesley
·
From A Defense of the Honor of the
Princess Mary, Queen of Scotland
(1569) 144
The Rerellion of the Northern Earls
148
Queen Elizabeth
·
Proclamation against the Earl of
Northumberland
(1569) 150
Letter to Mary Stuart
(1570) 152
Pope Pius V
·
The Bull of Excommunication against
Elizabeth
(1570) 155
Thomas Norton
·
From A Disclosing of the Great Bull
(1570) 158
Protestant Protests and Prayers
161
Edward
Dering
·
From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen's Majesty [The "Unruly Heifer" Sermon]
( 1570) 162
John Conway
·
From Meditations and Prayers
(1571) 167
Attributed to Queen Elizabeth
·
From Christian Prayers and
Meditations
(1569) 168
Mary Stuart and the Ridolfi Plot
168
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letter to Thomas Smith, Authorizing the
Torture of Two Prisoners
(1571) 171
The Doubt of Future Foes
(1570?) 171
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
[Britomart's dream at
Isis
Church and her rescue of
Artegall from Radigund and the Amazons]
172
PART FOUR: CHANGING ALLIANCES
(1572-1577)
Historical Background
183
Prospects of Marriage and Trouble in France
184
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to Sir Francis Walsingham
(1572) 186
The Church of England
·
From A Form of Common
Prayer
(1572)
A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Preservation of the
Queen and The Realm
191
A Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
191
Elizabeth on Summer Progress
192
Anonymous
·
The First Anointed Queen I Am
(1573) 195
George Gascoigne and others
·
The Princely Pleasures at
Kenilworth Castle
(1575) 195
"Robert Laneham" ·
From
A
Letter
of the Entertainment at
Killingworth
(1575) 222
Prayers, Advice, and Praise for the Queen
226
Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit
·
From Morning and Evening
Prayers
(1574) 228
Edward Hake
·
From A Commemoration of the Most
Prosperous and Peaceable Reign of Our Gracious and
Dear Sovereign Lady Elizabeth
(1575) 228
James Sanford
·
From Hours of Recreation, or
Afterdinners (1576) 231
Nicholas Hilliard
·
From A Treatise Concerning the Art of
Limning (ca. 1570s)
234
Edward
de Vere,
Earl of Oxford
·
What Cunning Can
Express (ca.
1576) 234
PART FIVE: THE FRENCH MARRIAGE
NEGOTIATIONS
(1578-1582)
Historical Background
237
The Queen, the French Ambassadors, and the
Visit to Norwich
238
Bernard Garter and William Goldingham
·
The Joyful
Receiving of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty into
Her Highness's City of Norwich
(1578) 240
Richard Topcliffe
·
From Letter to the Earl of
Shrewsbury
(1578) 264
Elizabeth,
Anjou,
and the Debate at Court
266
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letters to the Duke of
Anjou
and
Catherine
de
Medici
( 15 79-82) 267
William Cecil, Lord Burghley
·
Letter to the Queen
Regarding Her Proposed Marriage
( 1579) 274
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From A Discourse of Sir Philip
Sidney to the Queen's Majesty Touching Her Marriage
with Monsieur
(1579) 277
The Widening Controversy
281
William Elderton
·
A New Ballad, Declaring the Dangerous
Shooting of the Gun at the Court
( 1579) 283
John
Stubbs
·
From The Discovery of A Gaping Gulf
(1579) 287
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From Arcadia (ca.
1579-80)
[As I my Little Flock on
Ister Bank] 295
Christopher Marlowe
·
From The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of
Carthage (ca.
1581-86) 300
Support for the Queen
302
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
A very strange and rueful vision
303
Another vision
303
John Lyly
·
From Euphues and His England
(1580) 304
Thomas Blenerhasset
·
From
A
Revelation of the True
Minerva
(1582)
[Mercury prophesies concerning the kingdom of the
true Minerva]
306
[Mercury characterizes the Queen]
306
[The Muse Clio praises Elizabeth as a goddess immune to
misfortune]
307
Anjou's Departure and the Queen's Grief
308
Queen Elizabeth
·
Poem and Prayers (ca.
1579-82)
[I Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent]
309
From The Queen's Prayerbook
309
PART SIX: COURTIERS, ASSASSINS, AND THE DEATH
OF MARY STUART
(1582-1587)
Historical Background
313
Cupid at Court
315
Queen Elizabeth
·
Reflections on Love and Growing
Older (ca. 1580s)
[When I Was Fair and Young]
316
[Now Leave and Let Me Rest]
317
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Love Poems to the Queen
(ca.
1582-89)
[Our Passions Are Most Like to Floods and Streams]
318
[Sweet Are the Thoughts]
319
[Calling to Mind Mine Eye Long Went About]
319
[Verse Exchange with the Queen
(1587)] 320
[Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired]
321
Celebrations on Accession Day
321
Thomas
Bentley
·
From The Monument of Matrons
(1582) 323
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From Arcadia (ca.
1584-85)
[The Joust between Philisides and Lelius]
330
George Peele
·
From The Arraignment of Paris
(1584) 332
Attacks and Assassination Attempts
334
Cardinal William Allen
·
From A True, Sincere, and Modest
Defense of English Catholics
(1584) 335
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two
(1606)
[The Assassination Attempt of William Parry]
338
The Church of England
·
From An Order of Prayer and
Thanksgiving for the Preservation of the Queen's Majesty's
Life and Safety
(1585) 342
The Execution of Mary Stuart
344
Queen Elizabeth
·
Speeches to Parliament
(1585-86)
[Speech at the Closing of Parliament]
347
[The First Answer to the New Parliament Concerning
Mary Stuart]
348
From The Second Answer Made by the Queen's Majesty
352
Mary
Stuart
· Letter
to
Henry
III
(1587) 353
Robert
Wyngfield
·
From A Circumstantial Account of the
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
(1587) 355
Adam
Blackwood ·
From History of Mary, Queen of
Scots
(1587) 358
Richard Fletcher
·
From A Sermon Preached before the
Queen Immediately after the Execution of the Queen
of Scots by the Dean of Peterborough
(1587) 361
Queen Elizabeth
·
Letter to James VI on the Execution of
His Mother
(1587) 371
King James VI
·
Reply to Elizabeth
(1587) 371
PART SEVEN: THE SPANISH ARMADA AND ITS AFTERMATH
(1588-1592)
Historical Background
373
Prophecies and Provocations
375
Cyprian
von Leowitz ·
From Of the End of This World
( 1564)
[A Prophecy of the "Wonderful Year"
1588] 376
Richard Harvey
·
From An Astrological Discourse
(1582)
[Another Prophecy]
376
Cardinal William Allen
·
From A Declaration of the
Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper
and Pretensed Queen of England
( 1588) 377
The Defeat of the Armada
378
James Aske
·
From Elizabetha Triumphans
(1588)
[The Defeat of the Armada]
378
Thomas Heywood
·
From If You Know Not Me, You Know
Nobody, Part Two
(1606)
[The Attack and Destruction of the Armada]
383
The Queen at Tilbury
390
Queen Elizabeth
·
Words of Defiance and Inspiration
(1588)
[Verse Exchange with Philip II]
392
[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]
392
Thomas Deloney
·
The Queen's Visiting of the Camp at
Tilbury
(1588) 393
James Aske
·
From Elizabetha Triumphans
(1588)
[The Queen at Tilbury]
397
Victory Celebrations
402
Queen Elizabeth
·
The Queen in Victory
(1588)
Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Overthrow of the
Spanish Navy
403
[Letter to James VI on the Fate of the Armada]
404
[Song on the Armada Victory]
405
The Church of England
·
From The Armada Liturgy
(1588)
A Psalm of Thanksgiving
405
A Collect of Thanksgiving
407
David Gwyn
·
In Commendation of Sir Francis Drake
(1588) 408
George Puttenham
·
From The Art of English Poesy
( 1589)
Her Majesty Resembled to the Crowned Pillar
410
The Wit and Wisdom of the Queen
410
Jane Seager
·
From The Divine Prophecies of the Ten
Sibyls
(1589)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
411
Libica
412
[Concluding Address "To Queen Elizabeth"]
412
Anonymous
·
A Peddler's Tale
(1591) 412
A Return to Summer Progresses
415
Anonymous
·
The Entertainment at Elvetham
(1591) 417
Queen Elizabeth
·
Latin Oration at Oxford University
(1592) 433
PART EIGHT: A CHANGING COURT AND AGING
QUEEN
(1592-1597)
Historical Background
435
Breaking with Old Favorites and Friends
437
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Poems from Prison (ca.
1592)
[If Cynthia Be a Queen]
439
[My Body in the Walls Captived]
439
From The Twenty-First and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia
439
Queen Elizabeth
·
Works of Sorrow and Consolation
(1593)
[Letter to Henry IV of France]
452
From Translation ofBoethius's Consolation of Philosophy
453
New Faces on Accession Day
456
William Seagar
·
From Honor, Military and Civil
(1602)
[The Retirement of the Queen's Champion, Sir Henry
Lee, November
17, 1590] 459
George Peele
·
From Anglorum Feriae, England's
Holidays
(1595) 462
Henry Peacham
·
On Essex's Accession Day Tournament
Impresa,
1595 (1612) 468
Francis Bacon
·
Of Love and Self-Love, An Accession
Day Entertainment
(1595) 469
The Woman behind the Mask
476
Sir John Harington
·
From Most Elegant and Witty
Epigrams (ca.
1589-98)
Against Pius Quintus, that Excommunicated Queen
Elizabeth
477
To the Queen's Majesty, When She Found Fault
with Some Particular Matters in Misacmos's
Metamorphosis
47'8
To the Ladies of the Queen's Privy Chamber, at the
Making of Their Perfumed Privy at Richmond
478
Against Linus, a Writer, That Found Fault with the
Metamorphosis
479
Of Soothsaying, to the Queen of England
479
John Lyly
·
From The Woman in the Moon (ca.
1591-95) 479
Henry
Lok
·
A Square in Verse
(1593) 480
André
Hurault, Sieur
de Maisse ·
A Private Audience with
Elizabeth
(1597) 483
PART NINE: IRELAND, RERELLION, AND THE
PASSING OF THE QUEEN
(1598-1603)
Historical Background
487
Tyrone's Rebellion and the Fall of Essex
489
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
·
It Was a Time When
Silly Bees Could Speak
(1598) 490
Queen Elizabeth
·
Documents on the War
(1599)
The Queen Majesty's Proclamation Declaring Her Princely
Resolution in Sending Over of Her Army into the
Realm of Ireland
491
Letter to Essex in Ireland
493
Sir John Harington
·
On the Irish Campaign, the Fall
of Essex, and the Queen
(1599-1618)
From a Letter to Robert Markham
496
From a Letter to Sir Anthony
Standen 498
From Brief Notes and Remembrances
499
From Epigrams
Of the Earl of Essex
499
Of Misacmos's Success in a Suit
500
The Author to Queen Elizabeth, in Praise of Her Reading
500
Queen Elizabeth
·
Proclamation on the Seizure of the
Earls of Essex, Rutland, and Southampton for
Rebellion
(1601) 500
The Queen in Her Final Glory
502
Queen Elizabeth
·
The Golden Speech
(1601)
[The Townshend version]
503
[The official version]
505
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
·
From the
Sidney Psalms
(1593-1600)
[Even Now That Care]
507
Psalm
72 510
Anonymous
·
From the Geneva Bible
(1560)
Psalm
72 512
Francis Bacon
·
Three Letters Accompanying New Year's
Gifts to the Queen (ca.
1594-1602) 513
Anonymous
·
Ode of Cynthia
(1602) 514
John Davies
·
Verses of the Queen
(1602) 515
Elizabeth's Decline and Death
516
Sir John Harington
·
Letter to Lady Mary Harington
(1602) 517
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
·
From a Letter to
King James on Elizabeth's Decline
(1603) 519
Robert Carey
·
From Memoirs of Robert Carey (ca.
1626)
The Queen's Last Sickness and Death
521
Elizabeth
Southwell
·
A True Relation of What Succeeded
at the Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth
(1607) 524
England in Mourning
527
Thomas
Dekker
·
From The Wonderful Year
(1603)
[The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth]
527
Thomas Newton From
Atropoïon Delion,
or the Death
of Delia
(1603) 530
Anonymous
·
A Mournful Ditty, Entitled Elizabeth's
Loss
(1603) 531
Henry Petowe
·
From Eliza's Funeral
(1603)
From A Few April Drops Showered on the Hearse of
Dead Eliza
534
Eulogies and the End of an Age
535
William Shakespeare
·
Sonnet
107
[Not Mine Own Fears,
nor the Prophetic Soul] (ca.
1603) 536
Michael Drayton
·
Sonnet
51
[Calling to Mind, Since
First My Love Begun]
(1605) 537
Michael Drayton
·
From The Muses' Elizium
(1630)
The Description of Elyzium
537
Anonymous
·
Gone is Elizabeth
(1612) 541
Lady Diana Primrose
·
A Chain of Pearl, or A Memorial
of Queen Elizabeth
(1630) 541
PART TEN: LINGERING IMAGES OF THE QUEEN
Historical Background
551
A Queen of Many Guises
552
Thomas
Dekker
·
From Old
Fortunatus
( 1600)
The Prologue at Court
552
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Now We Have Present Made
(ca.
1582-87) 554
Elizabeth as Shepherdess
555
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Shepherd's Calendar
(1579)
To His Book
557
April ^
557
Michael Drayton
·
Rowland's Song in Praise of the Fairest
Beta
(1594) 563
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
·
A Dialogue
Between Two Shepherds Thenot and Piers, in Praise of
Astraea (ca.
1599) 565
Elizabeth as Petrarchan Mistress
567
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
[A riddle of the princess paragon]
569
[The assoil at large moralized in three dizains]
570
Sir Philip Sidney
·
From the Old Arcadia (ca.
1579-80)
Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light
571
Henry
Constable
·
To the Queen Touching the Cruel
Effects of Her Perfections (ca.
1589) 576
John Lyly
·
"A Ditty" from an Entertainment at Cowdray
(1591) 576
Elizabeth as Goddess of the Moon
577
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
Praised be Diana's Fair and
Harmless Light (ca.
1582-87) 578
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
2 (1596)
[Braggadoccio and Trompart encounter Belphoebe]
579
George Chapman
·
From
Hymnus
in
Cyn
thiam
(1594) 585
Richard Barnfield
·
From Cynthia
(1595)
To His Mistress
587
Cynthia
587
Anonymous
·
My Thoughts Are Winged with Hopes
(1597) 592
Ben
Jonson
·
"Hymn" to Cynthia
(1601) 593
Elizabeth as the Fairy Queen
593
Sir Walter Ralegh
·
A Vision upon This Conceit of the Fairy
Queen
(1590) 594
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
1 (1590)
[Prince Arthur's vision of Gloriana]
595
[The Red Cross Knight's vision of the New Jerusalem and of
Gloriana's city of Cleopolis]
597
From
Amoretti
(1595)
Sonnet
74
[Most Happy Letters Framed by Skillful Trade]
599
Sonnet
80
[After So Long a Race As I Have Run]
600
Elizabeth as the Goddess of Justice
600
George Peele
·
From Descensus Astraeae
(1591) 601
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
Proem
603
[Astraea instructs Artegall in justice and abandons
the earth]
605
John Davies
·
From Hymns of Astraea
(1599) 608
Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen
616
George Puttenham
·
From Partheniads
(1579)
[That her Majesty surmounteth all the princesses of
our time]
618
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke
·
From Caelica (1590s)
Sonnet
81
[Under a Throne I Saw a Virgin Sit]
618
William Shakespeare
·
From A Midsummer Night's
Dream (ca.
1595-96) 619
Edmund Spenser
·
From The Faerie Queene, Book
5 (1596)
[Prince Arthur and Artegall enter the Court and
behold Mercilla]
620
Anonymous
·
Britanniáé Lachrimae
(1603) 623
Commentary and Criticism
625
PART ELEVEN: REMEMBERING ELIZABETH: EARLY
ACCOUNTS OF THE QUEEN
(1577-1848)
An Early Chronicle
627
Raphael Holinshed
·
From The Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland
(1577) 627
Recollections by Those Who Knew the Queen
630
Sir John Harington
·
From Reminiscences of the
Queen from a Letter to Robert Markham
(1606) 631
Sir Francis Bacon
·
From The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth
and Her Times
(1608) 633
Early Histories and Biographies
636
William Camden
·
From The History of the Life and
Reign of
.
Elizabeth, Late Queen of England
(1617) 637
Sir Robert Naunton
·
From
Fragmenta
Regalia, or
Observations on the Late Queen Elizabeth
(1634) 640
Sir John Hayward
·
From The Beginning of the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth
(1636) 642
Antiquarian Biographies
643
Edmund Bohun
·
From The Character of Queen
Elizabeth
(1693) 645
George Ballard
·
From Memoirs of Several Ladies of
Great Britain
(1752) 647
Agnes Strickland
·
From Lives of the Queens of
England
(1848) 649
PART TWELVE: MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICISM
Abbreviations
654
Elizabeth's Strategies for Rule
655
J. E. Neale
·
The Affability of Their Prince
655
David Loades
·
The Great Queen
659
Natalie Mears
·
[Queenship and Political Discourse]
674
The Virgin Monarch
683
Susan
Doran
·
Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?
683
The Queen's Religious Position
696
Patrick Collinson
·
Windows in a Woman's Soul
696
The Poems and Speeches of Elizabeth
712
Ilona Bell ·
Elizabeth Tudor: Poet
712
George P. Rice, Jr.
·
The Speaker and the Speeches
728
The Progresses and Entertainments
737
J. E. Neale
·
[The Annual Round of Entertainments]
737
Mary Hill Cole
·
[Politics on Summer Progress]
738
Zillah Dovey
·
[Managing the Royal Entourage]
741
The Queen's Portraits
746
Sir Roy Strong
·
[Depicting
Gloriane]
746
Elizabeth in Literature
770
John
N.
King
·
[Representing the Virgin Queen]
770
Jeffrey
Knapp ·
[Empress of England and America]
790
Frances
A. Yates
·
[England's Astraea]
802
Criticizing Elizabeth
816
Carole Levin
·
[Royal Wanton and Whore]
816
Donald Stump
·
[Protestant Voices of Dissent]
838
The Queen on Film
853
Thomas Betteridge
·
A Queen for All Seasons
853
Selected Bibliography
867
Glossary of Names
881 |
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