Women and geography on the early modern English stage /
In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formid...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press B.V.,
2019.
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| Series: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
