Writing Renaissance queens : texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots / Lisa Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.

Kings' and rulers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Kings' and rulers' writings, English.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Writing skill.

Elizabeth.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Kings' and rulers' writings, Scottish--History and criticism.

Kings' and rulers' writings, Scottish.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587--In literature.

Mary.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587--Writing skill.

Intellectual life.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--16th century.

Great Britain.

Scotland--Intellectual life--16th century.

Scotland.

Queens in literature.

Physical Description:

209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Writing Renaissance Queens 11

Part 1 Writing Renaissance Queens

1. "Monstrous Regiment": Theorizing Female Rule 29

2. Elizabethanism on the Trot: The Faerie Queene 43

Part 2 Queens' Self-representations

3. Prison Notebooks: Mary, Elizabeth, and Marguerite of Navarre 55

4. Writing to Control: The Verse of Mary, Queen of Scots 72

Part 3 Staging the Queen

5. Kings, Queens, and Petty Treason: Imaging Female Rule in Arden of Faversham 89

6. Not to Mention the Queen: Shakespeare and Elizabeth 104

7. Divorced, Beheaded, Died: The Tragedy of Mariam and Our English Solomons 113

Part 4 Remembering the Queen

8. "Ripeness is all": Representing the Death of Elizabeth 131

9. "Moll, God's maid": Milton and Renaissance Queens 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.

ISBN:

0874137861

OCLC:

48964859