Queen Elizabeth I: Representations of the Virgin Queen
@article{King1990QueenEI, title={Queen Elizabeth I: Representations of the Virgin Queen}, author={J. King}, journal={Renaissance Quarterly}, year={1990}, volume={43}, pages={30-74} }
It is commonly acknowledged that although Elizabeth I vowed herself to a life of perpetual virginity, she entered into a symbolic marriage with England as her husband. In this way she could receive the" adulation of her subjects as the universal object of a Petrarchan religion of love, one that pervaded ballads, pageants, and dramatic entertainments. Scholars claim that she was able to convert her unprecedented weakness as a celibate queen into a powerful propagandistic claim that she… CONTINUE READING
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