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Author:   Yasmin Arshad (Independent Scholar, USA) ,  Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Catherine Richardson, PhD (University of East Anglia, UK) ,  Prof Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
ISBN:  

9781350320703

ISBN 10:   1350320706
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   28 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

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Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction Yasmin Arshad (University College London, UK) and Chris Laoutaris (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK) Part 1: Negotiating Royal Power: Propaganda, Encryption and the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasion 1. Susanna Horenbout and the Politics of Illumination at the Court of Henry VIII, Susan E. James (Independent Scholar and Art Historian, UK) 2. Inventing Iconography: Mary Queen of Scots, James VI of Scotland, and the Campaign for the Association, c. 1578-1584, Susan Doran (Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK) and Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK) 3. Elizabeth I at Sixty, Helen Hackett (University College London, UK) and Karen Hearn (University College London, UK; formerly Curator of 16th- and 17th-Century British Art at Tate Britain, UK) 4. “Still Renewing Wronges”?: Politics, Identity and Encryption in Gheeraerts’ ‘Persian Lady’ Portrait, Chris Laoutaris (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK) and Yasmin Arshad (University College London, UK) 5. The Islamic World and the Various Faces of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley in Seventeenth-Century British and European Portraiture, Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Part 2: Inter-Visual Interventions: Identity, Agency and Confrontations with the Self 6. Embroidery as Self-Portraiture, Jane Stevenson (Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK) 7. “She Wrings her Hands”: Portraiture and Female Agency in the Early Modern Dumb Show, Keir Elam (University of Bologna, Italy) 8. Capitalizing on Beauty: Blazons and Portraiture in Early Modern English Verse, Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State University, Michigan, USA) 9. Flights of Fancy and Practical Strokes: Feminine Aesthetics of Hannah Woolley and Margaret Cavendish, Anna Riehl Bertolet (Auburn University, Alabama, USA) 10. “A Moor to a Maiden”: The Presence of Black Africans in the Portraiture of Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Ana Howie (University of Cambridge, UK) Part 3: Visualizing Women’s Networks: Patronage, Curating and Collecting 11. “How bleedeth burning love?”: The Collection, Preservation and Presentation of English Catholic Relics by Anne Vaux and Dona Luisa de Carvajal, Janet Graffius (Curator of Collections and Historic Libraries, Stonyhurst, UK) 12. Mary Ward and the Figuring of Female Networks, Caroline Bicks (University of Maine, USA) 13. Locating the Cavendish women in Ben Jonson’s The New Inn and the murals at Bolsover Castle, Crosby Stevens (University of Sheffield; formerly Curator of Art for English Heritage, UK) 14. Richard Crashaw’s Lady Margaret Beaufort in the Liber Memorialis at St John’s College, Cambridge, Anna Clark (University of Oxford and the National Portrait Gallery, UK) Index

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Yasmin Arshad is Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern Exchanges,School of European Languages, Culture & Society, University College London, UK. Chris Laoutaris is Senior Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

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