1. Louis Adrian Montrose, ‘“Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes”, and the Pastoral of Power’, in The New Historicism Reader, ed. H. Aram Veeser (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 88–115 (pp. 90 and 98).
2. Susan Doran, Monarchy and Matrimony: the Courtships of Elizabeth I (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 9.
3. See David Starkey, Elizabeth (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000); Hackett, Virgin Mother; Doran, Monarchy; and
4. Carole Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1994).
5. Marina Warner, Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976), p. 67.