Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John.

Praise for the first edition: "Levin breaks out of the usual stale biographical packaging of Elizabeth by using traditional sources in imaginative ways, as well as by incorporating a number of less usual texts."-Shakespeare Quarterly "Written in a lucid, often witty prose style, Carole Levin's volume... promises to become a classic of enduring interest to specialists and general readers alike."-Sixteenth Century Journal

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John.

Praise for the first edition: "Levin breaks out of the usual stale biographical packaging of Elizabeth by using traditional sources in imaginative ways, as well as by incorporating a number of less usual texts."-Shakespeare Quarterly "Written in a lucid, often witty prose style, Carole Levin's volume... promises to become a classic of enduring interest to specialists and general readers alike."-Sixteenth Century Journal

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John.

Praise for the first edition: "Levin breaks out of the usual stale biographical packaging of Elizabeth by using traditional sources in imaginative ways, as well as by incorporating a number of less usual texts."-Shakespeare Quarterly "Written in a lucid, often witty prose style, Carole Levin's volume... promises to become a classic of enduring interest to specialists and general readers alike."-Sixteenth Century Journal