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I analyze these performances, along with their afterlives in print and manuscript, in their precise historical moments to uncover the specific negotiations each enacts between aristocrats and the Queen. Writers Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Russell, patrons Alice Egerton and Margery Norreys, and young female performers such as Elizabeth Brydges used late Elizabethan progress entertainments to engage directly in debates about gender and political authority and to accomplish a wide range of goals: they lobbied for positions at court, urged the Queen to adopt certain policies, advertised their wealth and influence, and sought further power. 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