Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain

Eduardo Olid Guerrero is an associate professor of Spanish at Muhlenberg College. Esther FernÁndez is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at Rice University. Susan Doran is a professor of history at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow and lecturer at Jesus College.

“During the sixteenth century, northern Protestants successfully propagated an image of Spain that would eventually become known as the Black Legend. Ruled by a wicked king (Philip II) accused of murdering his own son so that he might marry his niece and a bigoted bureaucracy (the Inquisition), Spain became a byword for cruelty and religious zealotry. The essays collected in this remarkable volume uncover a Spanish counter-narrative: an image of England as a country overrun by pirates and governed by a Jezebel born of incest (Elizabeth I) who persecuted loyal subjects for their allegiance to the true Catholic faith. Covering everything from images to plays, from works of political theory to popular poetry, these accessibly written and illuminating essays reveal the ways this alternative Black Legend was constructed and disseminated. Elizabeth’s gender emerges as a topic that proved particularly difficult to navigate for many who contributed to this legend. Those who attempt to separate the entwined histories of early modern England and Spain that this volume has so successfully brought together will do so at their peril.”-Jan Machielsen, author of The Lion, the Witch, and the King and Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation

• List of IllustrationsForeword by Susan DoranAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Semper Eadem, Semper MutatioEduardo Olid GuerreroPart 1. Anglo-Spanish Relations and the Politics of Elizabethan Queendom1. From Friendship to Confrontation: Philip II, Elizabeth I, and Spanish-English Relations in the Sixteenth CenturyMagdalena de Pazzis Pi Corrales2. The Political Discourse on Elizabeth I in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century SpainJesús M. Usunáriz3. Antichrists, Pope Lovers, and Atheists: The Politics of Elizabeth I's Christian Prayers and MeditationsValerie Billing4. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Representation: The Triumph over SpainMercedes Alcalá-GalánPart 2. Visual and Literary Images of the Jezabel del Norte5. In Search of Elizabeth I: Visual Representations of the Virgin Queen in Early Modern Spanish SourcesClaudia Mesa Higuera6. Political Rhetoric in Lope de Vega's Representation of Elizabeth IAlejandro García-Reidy7. Elizabeth I and Spanish Poetic Satyr: Political Context, Propaganda, and the Social Dimension of the ArmadaJesús-David Jerez-GómezPart 3. The Queen Is Dead! Isabel Tudor in the Spanish Ethos and for a Spanish Audience8. Cervantes Upending Ribadeneira: Elizabeth I and the Reformation in Early Modern Spain 000Alexander Samson9. Elizabeth Tudor, the Elephant, and the Mirroring Cases of the Earl of Essex and the Duke of BironAdrián Izquierdo10. Unmasking the Queen: Elizabeth I on the Early Modern Spanish StageEsther FernándezContributorsIndex