Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts.

Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam University. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University

List of illustrations/Acknowledgements/Notes on contributors
Introduction
I A world in crisis: Elizabeth's iconography and religious tensions
1 Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of power - Carol Blessing
2 Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI - Ben Spiller
3 'Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine': Queen Elizabeth I as Lady Alchymia - Jayne Elisabeth Archer
II Virginia and the Virgin: Elizabeth and the New World
4 Elizabeth I: size matters - Deanne Williams
5 'And in their midst a sun': Petrarch's Triumphs and the Elizabethan icon - Heather Campbell
6 'Nature without labor': Virgin Queen and virgin land in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana - Helen J. Burgess
III The Old World and the New: classical precedents
7 The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and Titania - Lisa Hopkins
8 Evaluating virginity: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the iconography of marriage - Annaliese Connolly
9 Cynthia waning: Cynthia's Revels imagines the death of the queen - Matthew Steggle
IV Coda: Elizabeth's afterlife
10 'Turn thy Tombe into a Throne': Elizabeth I's death rehearsal - Scott L. Newstok
Index