"The Face of Queenship" investigates the aesthetic, political,
and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by
her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry,
portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book
shows how the portrayals of the queen's face register her
contemporaries' hopes, fears, hatreds, mockeries, rivalries, and
awe. In its application of theories of the meaning of the face and
its exploration of the early modern representation and
interpretation of faces, this study argues that the face was seen
as a rhetorical tool and that Elizabeth was a master of using her
face to persuade, threaten, or comfort her subjects.
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