Queen and Country

Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università di Padova, Italy. She has published The Kingis Quair (Padova, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham, 2009).

• Contents: Alessandra Petrina: Introduction – Jane Stevenson: The Female Monarch and her Subjects – Monica Santini: Romance Imagery in Elizabethan Entertainments and Tournaments – Donatella Montini: ‘As many as are English, are my children and kinsfolks’. Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of the Country – Paola Bottalla: Power Negotiations in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Davide del Bello: Elizabeth and the Rhetoric of Courtly Mystification – Valerio de Scarpis: The Music of the Spheres, Cosmography, and the Cult of Elizabeth I: Thomas Campion and John Davies, Sympathetic Bystanders – Peter Davidson: Opposing Elizabeth – Conny Loder: Tyranny, Theatricality and Machiavelli – Valentina Bricchi: ‘Che più gran cosa può desiderar un prencipe da i suoi sugetti?’: Monarchy and Power in John Florio’s Works – Sara Trevisan: Representations of Queen Elizabeth in the Private Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666) – Merio Scattola: A Challenge in Political Theology. James I and Early English Puritans on the Sources and Limits of Secular Authority.