SOURCE: Mazzola, Elizabeth. “‘O unityng confounding’: Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the Matrix of Renaissance Gender.” Exemplaria 12, no. 2 (fall 2000): 385-416.
In the following essay, Mazzola discusses the portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart (also known as Mary Queen of Scots) in Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's King Lear in terms of gender discourse in Renaissance poetry.
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