ABSTRACT
This statement registers in a very real way the transition in 1603 from one monarch to another, from the rule of Elizabeth I to that of King James VI and I. However, another queen features equally strongly here-James’s spouse, Anne of Denmark. This letter suggests that Anne was planning her now famous court theatricals as early as the year of accession and helps to confirm at least some of Barbara Lewalski’s sense of the strength and assertion, not least theatrical, of the new queen (Lewalski 1994:15-44).
