The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I (Queenship and Power)

by Anna Riehl (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $165.93

  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.