... depiction. It is impossible to discern whether Sidney intended Cleophila's address to the rebellious mob as an acute and literalised representation of Elizabeth and her rhetoric, or as his own vision of what England's female monarch could aspire to. However, it is certain that conscious or not, direct similarities between the Queen's two bodies and Cleophila arise with startling regularity. In ... ...

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