CAROLE LEVIN is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and author of The Reign of Elizabeth I. DEBRA BARRETT-GRAVES is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Santa Fe. JO ELDRIDGE CARNEY is Assistant Professor of English at the College of New Jersey.

• Introduction; C.Levin, J.Eldridge Carney & D.Barrett-Graves PART ONE: THE NATURE OF RENAISSANCE QUEENS On Education of an Early Modern Queen: Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives; T.G.Elston Mary I: England's First Renaissance Queen; J.Richards Elizabeth as Sacred Monarch; C.Levin Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Colonization: Anna of Denmark, Pocahontas, Ben Jonson, and the Start of the English Empire, 1614-1616; L.Roper Negotiating Charles I: Henrietta Maria and Elizabeth of Bohemia in the Late 1620s; K.Nelson PART TWO: IMAGING RENAISSANCE QUEENS AND POWER And a Queen of England, Too: The 'Englishing' of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History; M.Hensen To live eternized in the House of Fame: Renaissance Poets and the Imaging of Queenship; D.Barrett-Graves 'Whore' Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State; S.Dunn-Hensley 'We Have Been Soldiers': The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher; J.Eldridge Carney 'No Head Eminent Above the Rest': Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest; S.Ray 'There's Magic in Thy Magesty': Queenship and Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage; K.Stavreva PART THREE: CULTURAL ANXIETIES AND HISTORICAL ECHOES OF RENAISSANCE QUEENS Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth; J.Currie Queen Katherine's Dream: Representations of Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in the Victorian Age; G.Ziegler Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film; R.Warnicke Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de' Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot; E.Kruse Afterword; L.Cowen Orlin