1. Ctd. in Leonie Frieda, Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 240.
2. Max Lüthi, The Fairy Tale as Art Form and Portrait of Man, trans. Jon Erickson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984, 4–5.
3. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 38.
4. Thomas Becon, Prayers and Other Pieces of Thomas Becon (New York: Johnson Reprint, 1968), 227–28.
5. John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 14. For Elizabeth’s response to Knox,