"High and mighty queens" of early modern England : realities and representations / co-edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levin, Carole, 1948-

Carney, Jo Eldridge, 1954-

Barrett-Graves, Debra

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Queens in literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Queens--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.

Queens.

Queens--Biography--History and criticism.

Queens--Biography.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

""High and Mighty Queens" of Early Modern England" is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of literary representations of earlier historical queens such as Cleopatra, and semi-historical ones such as Gertrude, Tamora, and Lady Macbeth, and such fictional ones as Hermione and the queen of "Cymbeline, "all of them Shakespeare characters. This fascinating look at Renaissance queens also examines myth and folklore, Romantic or Victorian representations, and the depictions of queens like Catherine de Medici of France in twentieth century film.

Contents:

Transformation or continuity? Sixteenth-century education and the legacy of Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives / Timothy G. Elston

Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England / Judith M. Richards

Unmasquing the connections between Jacobean politics and the policy: the circle of Anna of Denmark and the beginning of the English Empire, 1614-18 / Luis H. Roper

Negotiating exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Court of Charles I / Karen L. Nelson

"And a queen of England, too": the "Englishing" of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English literary and chronicle history / Matthew C. Hansen

Whore queens: the sexualized female body and the state / Susan Dunn-Hensley

"Honoured Hippolyta, most dreaded Amazonian": the Amazon Queen in the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher / Jo Eldridge Carney

"No head eminent above the rest": female authority in Othello and The Tempest / Sid Ray

"There's magic in thy majesty": queenship and witch-speak in Jacobean Shakespeare / Kirilka Stavreva

The taming of the Queen: Foxe's Katherine and Shakespeare's Kate / Carole Levin

Mary Queen of Scots as suffering woman: representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth / Joy Currie

Re-imagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon among the Victorians / Georgianna Ziegler

The woman in black: the image of Catherine de Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot / Elaine Kruse

Anne Boleyn in history, drama, and film / Retha M. Warnicke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1403960887

OCLC:

50479310

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