(SparkNotes Publishers.) The Queen loved portraits, and likewise, artists loved to pay homage to her with them. In fact, there are more painted portraits of Queen Elizabeth I than of any other English monarch. (Ducksters, “Biography: Queen Elizabeth I for Kids.”) “Artists also promoted Elizabeth in all her bejeweled glamor, surrounded by a glittering court full of vigorous young men from whom she inspired fearless deeds." (Lewis, Brenda Ralph.) Regarding Queen Elizabeth I's influence on the theater, she attended the theater and often watched Shakespeare's plays or the theater troupe performed for her. Poets, playwrights, painters, propagandists and ballad makers all conspired to intensify the image of Elizabeth as "Gloriana", the Virgin Queen or the names "Faerie Queene" given by the famous poet Edmund Spenser. (Lewis, Brenda Ralph.) Elizabeth's court also became a center of poets, musicians, writers and scholars. Focusing on Queen Elizabeth I's influence on music in England, "Combining Elizabeth's practical musicality with speculative notions of political harmony – and drawing on ideas of the rational and sensual powers of music - Elizabeth and her courtiers were able to transform music into an image of female power and authority" (Butler.,