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In ¿La española inglesa,¿ Cervantes applies to the figure of Queen Elizabeth powers similar to those attributed to the Virgin Mary by the Catholic cult of Hispanic tradition. By virtue of this analogy, the construction of the English sovereign as a ¿liminal¿ figure enables the character not only to transgress the institutional limits imposed upon the historical women of that time, but to cross the gender, class, religious, and economic boundaries underlying them at the same time. But more importantly, through the actions of the Virgin Queen, the Cervantine text reveals the anxieties of early modern men, when faced with subjection to a woman of political and spiritual authority.
