This book¿along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction¿centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language¿written, spoken, and acted out¿and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source