Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation

In this revisionist study, Frye examines Elizabeth I's struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. She focuses on three representational crises: the London coronation of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queene in 1590. In ways which varied with social class and historical circumstance, London merchants, the Protestant faction, courtly artists, and artful courtiers sought to stabilize their own gendered identities by con...