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[email protected]. CONSTRUCTING AN EARLY MODERN QUEEN: POSTURING, MIMICRY, AND THE RHETORIC OF AUTHORITY by Megan K. Mize B.A. May 2004, The College of William and Mary M.A. August 2006, Old Dominion University A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ENGLISH OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY August 2018 Approved by: Imtiaz Habib (Director) Lindal Buchanan (Member) David Metzger (Member) Leah Marcus (Member) ABSTRACT CONSTRUCTING AN EARLY MODERN QUEEN: POSTURING, MIMICRY, AND THE RHETORIC OF AUTHORITY Megan K. Mize Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Imtiaz Habib As the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, a woman executed for treason, Elizabeth Tudor stood at the center of discourses that often sought to contain or even destroy her.