This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor's historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to the 20th century. Re-appraising aspects of her reign that have been misrepresented the book creates a more balanced, objective portrait of England's last Catholic, and first female, monarch.

List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Introduction; T.Freeman PART I: OLD PERSPECTIVES A 'Sharp Rod' of Chastisement: Mary I Through Protestant Eyes During the Reign of Elizabeth I; S.Doran Her Majesty, Which is Now in Heaven: Mary Tudor and the Elizabethan Catholics; V.Houliston The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession; P. Kewes 'Thus Like A Nun, Not Like a Princess Born': Dramatic Representations of Mary Tudor in the Early Years of the Seventeenth Century; T.Grant Inventing 'Bloody Mary': Perceptions of Mary Tudor from Restoration to the Twentieth Century; T.Freeman PART II: NEW PERSPECTIVES Ad Omne Virtutum Genus?: Mary Between Piety, Pedagogy and Praise in Early-Tudor Humanism; A.W.Taylor Religion and Translation at the Court of Henry VIII: Princess Mary, Katherine Parr and the Paraphrases of Erasmus; A.Pollnitz Maids and Wives: Representing Female Rule during the Reign of Mary Tudor; T.Betteridge The Religious Policy of Mary I; W.Wizeman, SJ Burning Zeal: Mary Tudor and the Marian persecution; T.Freeman Reassessing Mary Tudor: Some Concluding Points; J.Richards Appendix: List of the Marian martyrs Further Reading.

'This excellent collection of essays should do much to question assumptions and dispel prejudice, as well as making a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Mary and her reign.' -Lucy Wooding, King's College London, Recusant History

THOMAS BETTERIDGE, Professor of Early Modern English Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK TERESA GRANT, Associate Professor in Renaissance Theatre, University of Warwick, UK VICTOR HOULISTON, Professor of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa PAULINA KEWES, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK AYSHA POLLNITZ, Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK JUDITH RICHARDS, Research Associate of History Programme, University of La Trobe, Australia ANDREW TAYLOR, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Churchill College, Cambridge WILLIAM WIZEMAN, SJ, One time Assistant Priest at Corpus Christi Church, New York, US