SAVE 40% ON THIS BOOK AND ANY TITLE PUBLISHED BY NEBRASKA WITH CODE 6AS19 In the United States or Canada please order online at nebraskapress.unl.edu or call our distributor Longleaf Services at 1-800-848-6224. To order outside of North America, please called Combined Academic Publishers in the United Kingdom at +44 (0)1423 526350 and use the discount code CS40UNP. THE IMAGE OF ELIZABETH I IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN EDITED BY EDUARDO OLID GUERRERO AND ESTHER FERNÁNDEZ FOREWORD BY SUSAN DORAN “During the sixteenth century, northern Protestants successfully propagated an image of Spain that would eventually become known as the Black Legend. Ruled by a wicked king (Philip II) accused of murdering his own son so that he might marry his niece and a bigoted bureaucracy (the Inquisition), Spain became a byword for cruelty and religious zealotry. The essays collected in this remarkable volume uncover a Spanish counter-narrative: an image of England as a country overrun by pirates and governed by a Jezebel born of incest (Elizabeth I) who persecuted loyal subjects for their allegiance to the true Catholic faith. Covering everything from images to plays, from works of political theory to popular poetry, these accessibly written and illuminating essays reveal the ways this alternative Black Legend was constructed and disseminated. Elizabeth’s gender emerges as a topic that proved particularly difficult to navigate for many who contributed to this legend. Those who attempt to separate the entwined histories of early modern England and Spain that this volume has so successfully brought together will do so at their peril.” —Jan Machielsen, author of The Lion, the Witch, and the King Queen Elizabeth I was an iconic figure in England during her reign, with many contemporary English 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, his- torical, 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 con- tradictory 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 propagan- da efforts against 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. Eduardo Olid Guerrero is an associate professor of Spanish at Muhlenberg College. Esther Fernández is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at Rice University. Susan Doran is a professor of history at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow and lecturer at Jesus College. Hercules and the King of Portugal Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón’s Spain Dian Fox $55.00 NOW $33.00 ALSO OF INTEREST $65.00 NOW $39.00 Hardcover • 420 pp. New Hispanisms Caught between the Lines Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art Carlos Riobó $45.00 NOW $27.00