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The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons.nbsp;English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage.nbsp;This book uses these historical and literary sources, including a maid of honor8217;s eyewitness account of the explosion of the Queen8217;s corpse, to provide a detailed history of Elizabeth8217;s final illness and death, and to show Elizabeth8217;s subjects8212;peers and poets, bishops and beggars, women and men8212;responding to their loss by remembering and reconstructing their Queen.