Suggested Reading for Adults

Biographies

Camden, William. The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England [1625]. Ed. Wallace T. MacCaffrey. The University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Erickson, Carolly. The First Elizabeth. St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Fraser, Antonia. Mary Queen of Scots. Dell, 1993.

Haigh, Christopher. Elizabeth I. 2nd ed. Longman, 1998.

Hulse, Clark. Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth the Great. Putnam, 1959.

Kamen, Henry. Philip of Spain. Yale University Press, 1997.

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I. Edward Arnold, 1993.

Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth I. J. Cape, 1938.

Plowden, Alison. Elizabeth I: The First 25 Years. Sutton Publishing, 1999.

Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. Knopf, 1991.

Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Weir, Alison. Life of Elizabeth I. Ballantine Books, 1998.

Wormald, Jenny. Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost. 1988; Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001.

Culture

Barber, Peter. Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps. British Library Publications, 2002.

Carroll, Clare. Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Writing about Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Chinnery, Victor. Oak Furniture: The British Tradition : A History of Early Furniture in the British Isles and New England. Antique Collectors' Club, 1979.

Clarke, Danielle, ed. Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. Penguin USA, 2001.

Crockett, Laura. Trippingly on the Tongue: A Booke of Instruction for Speaking Early Modern English. Historical Resources, 1997.

Dixon, Annette, ed. Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art. Merrell, 2002.

Frye, Susan. Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. University of Chicago Press, 1980.

---, et al, ed. The Norton Shakespeare. W.W. Norton, 1997.

Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Hall, Kim. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press, 1996.

Harvey, P. D. A. Maps in Tudor England. Public Record Office and the British Library, 1993.

Howarth, David. Images of Rule: Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1649. University of California Press, 1997.

Jordan, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models. Cornell University Press, 1990.

King, John N. Tudor Royal Iconography. Princeton University Press, 1989.

Kinney, Arthur F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

---, ed. Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. Blackwell, 2000.

Nichols, John. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth [1823]. 3 vols. AMS Press, 1961.

Scarisbrick, Diana. Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery. Tate, 1995.

Shirley, Rodney W. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477-1650. Map Collectors' Circle, 1973-1974.

Strong, Roy. The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry. 1977; Random House UK, 1999.

---. The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture. Pantheon Books, 1969.

---. Gloriana. Thames and Hudson, 1987.

---. The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. Thames and Hudson, 1987.

---. Renaissance Garden in England. Thames and Hudson, 1979.

---. Tudor and Jacobean Portraits. 2 vols. Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1969.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547. Yale University Press, 1993.

Turbet, Richard. Tudor Music: A Research and Information Guide. Garland Publishing, 1994.

Watkins, John. Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Wells, Robin Headlam. Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth. Croom Helm, 1983.

Yates, Frances A. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.

Fiction

Barnes, Margaret Campbell. Brief Gaudy Hour. Ace, 1981 [Life of Anne Boleyn].

Finney, Patricia. Firedrake's Eye. Picador USA, 1998 [An Elizabethan thriller].

---. Unicorn's Blood. St. Martin's Press, 1999 [An Elizabethan thriller].

Garnett, George. Death of the Fox: A Novel of Elizabeth and Raleigh. Harvest, 1991.

---. The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James. Harvest, 1991.

History

Brigden, Susan. New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603. Penguin USA, 2002.

Cole, Mary Hill. The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

Collinson, Patrick. The Religion of the Protestants. Clarendon, 1982.

Doran, Susan. Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy. Routledge, 2000

---. Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603. Routledge, 1994.

---. Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth. Routledge, 1996.

Dovey, Zillah M. An Elizabethan Progress: The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578. Sutton, 1999.

Dudley, Wade G. Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. Brassey's, 2003.

Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580. Yale University Press, 1994.

---. The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Yale University Press, 2003.

Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England. Whitson Publishing Co., 1984.

---. The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England: From 1485-1649. Writers Digest Books, 1996.

Freeman, Thomas S., and Susan Doran. The Myth of Elizabeth. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Guy, John. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

_____. Tudor England. Oxford University Press, 1988.

Haigh, Christopher, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Macmillan, 1984.

Hammer, Paul E.J. Polarization of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992.

Lindsay, Karen. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. Perseus Publishing, 1996.

Levin, Carole. "The Heart and Stomach of a King": Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

_____. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588. Princeton University Press, 1981.

---. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime. Princeton University Press, 1968.

Mattingly, Garrett. The Armada. Mariner Books, 1974.

Mendelson, Sarah Heller. Women in Early Modern England. Clarendon Press, 1998.

Neale, J. E. Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments. 2 vols. J. Cape, 1953-1957.

Scarisbrick, J. J. The Reformation and the English People. Blackwell, 1984.

Walker, Julia M., ed. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Duke University Press, 1998.

---. Elizabeth I as Icon: 1603-2003. Palgrave Macmillan (January 2004).

Warnicke, Retha M. The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Watson, Nicola J., and Michael Dobson. England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Wernham, R. B. After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe, 1588-1595. Clarendon Press, 1983.

_____. Before the Armada: The Growth of English Foreign Policy, 1485-1588. Cape, 1966.

Williams, Neville. The Tudors. University of California Press, 2000.

Williams, Penry. The Tudor Regime. Clarendon, 1979.

Writings by Elizabeth

Marcus, Leah, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. The University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Marcus, Leah, and Janel Mueller, eds. Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals. The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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