Introduction: It's good to be queen / Robert Bucholz & Carole Levin
"Greater by marriage" : the matrimonial career of the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem
Widow princess or neglected queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English public opinion, 1533-1536 / Timothy G. Elston
"Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan
Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin
Marriage à la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins
Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk
The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse
Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow
"Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl
Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall
"She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. White
Sex and the single queen : the erotic lives of Elizabeth Tudor in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann
The "stomach of a queen," or size matters : gender, body image, and the historical reputation of Queen Anne / Robert Bucholz
Two poems / Amber Harris Leichner.