Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Time Line -- Preface: The World's a St age -- 1 A Princess Unwanted -- Create Your Family's Coat of Arms -- Write Your Name in Your Own Typeface -- 2 "No Womanly Weakness" -- Cloak Yourself Like an Elizabethan -- Play and Sing a Madrigal -- Stitch a Blackwork Flower -- Munch on Marzipan -- 3 An Imprisoned Princess -- Fly Your Banner -- Play Nine Men's Morris -- Scent Your Home with a Pomander -- 4 Queen, Prince, and Player -- Stargaze and Observe the Zodiac -- Fluff Up a Ruff -- Carve a Turnip -- Grow a Knot Garden -- 5 Cousins, Queens, and Courtly Love -- Build a Knight's Helmet -- Dance a Courtly Dance -- 6 Danger, Deceit, and Death -- Picture Yourself as an Elizabethan -- 7 High Seas Drama -- Sing a Song of Seafaring -- Make an Elizabethan Map in 3-D -- 8 Armor for the Queen -- Sail Your Skateboard -- Clues in a Painting -- 9 Elizabeth, the Earl, and the End -- Read The Faerie Queen -- Acknowl edgments -- Resources -- Index.