The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain

Eduardo Olid Guerrero, Esther Fernández

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781496208446
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496213808
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Queen Elizabeth I was an iconic figure in England during her reign, withmany contemporaryEnglish portraits and literary works extolling her virtue and political acumen. In Spain, however, her image was markedly different. While few Spanish fictional or historical writings focus primarily on Elizabeth, numerous works either allude to her or incorporate her as a character. The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination.Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Luis de Góngora, Cristóbal de Virués, Antonio Coello, and Calderón de la Barca, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign. In doing so they articulate the various and sometimes conflicting ways in which the Tudor monarch became both the primary figure in English propaganda effortsagainst Spain and a central part of the Spanish political agenda. This edited volume revives and questions the image of Elizabeth I in early modern Spain as a means of exploring how the queen's persona, as mediated by its Spanish reception, has shaped the ways in which we understand Anglo-Spanish relations during a critical era for both kingdoms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1
• 1. From Friendship to Confrontation
• 2. The Political Discourse on Elizabeth I in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
• 3. Antichrists, Pope Lovers, and Atheists
• 4. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Representation
• Part 2e
• 5. In Search of Elizabeth I
• 6. Political Rhetoric in Lope de Vega’s Representation of Elizabeth I
• 7. Elizabeth I and Spanish Poetic Satyr
• Part 3
• 8. Cervantes Upending Ribadeneira
• 9. Elizabeth Tudor, the Elephant, and the Mirroring Cases of the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Biron
• 10. Unma(s)king the Queen
• Contributors
• Index
• About Eduardo Olid Guerrero
• About Esther Fernández
• About Susan Doran
• Series List