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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Queenship and Power Ser |
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Queenship and power.
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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Foreign Queens, Abusive Sovereignty, and Political Theory in the Past and the Present; Overview; Foreignness: Subjects and Aliens; The Nature of Sovereignty and the Friend/Enemy Distinction; The External Enemy; The Internal Enemy; The Sovereign as Internal Enemy; Shakespeare and Embodied Sovereignty; Four Key Terms: Fragmented Identity, Hospitality, Citizenship, Banishment; Fragmented Identity; Hospitality; Citizenship; Banishment and Exile; The Queen's Role; References |
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Chapter 2: Katherine of Aragon's Fragmented Identity in Henry VIIIForeign/Domestic, Friend/Enemy, Morality/Pragmatism; Corruption Versus the Commonweal; Wolsey's International Schemes; Katherine and England's Commonweal; Katherine and the Fall of Buckingham; Foreign Identity in the Trial of Katherine; Wolsey's Foreign Aspirations; Katherine's Claims to Foreignness; From Queen to Housewife; Reclaiming Englishness; Neither Wife nor Queen; References; Chapter 3: The Friend, the Enemy, the Wife, and the Guest: Conditional and Unconditional Hospitality in The Winter's Tale |
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Conditional Hospitality in the Sicilian CourtHospitality, Reciprocity, and Sovereign Authority; Sovereign/Host/Husband and Subject/Guest/Wife; The Internal Enemy: Sovereignty on Trial; Pastoral Communalism and Unconditional Hospitality in Rural Bohemia; Reframing Pastoral Complaint; The Moral Values of Pastoral; The Intrusion of Conditional Hospitality; The Fantasy of Forgiveness; References; Chapter 4: Strange Bedfellows: Friend, Enemy, and the Commonweal in Titus Andronicus; The Friend/Enemy Distinction and the Internal Enemy; The Virtues of Rome |
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Tamora, Roman Values, and the Enemy as FriendSovereignty, Injustice, and the Uncertainties of Vengeance; Tamora's Gendered Condition; From Good Subject to Good Citizen; Vengeance and the Breaking of the Commonweal; Rome's New Beginning; References; Chapter 5: Margaret and the Ban: Resistances to Sovereign Authority in Henry VI 1, 2, & 3 and Richard III; Marriage as Banishment; Henry VI 1 & 2: Margaret as Outsider and Enemy; Her Subordination to Suffolk; Her Role in Gloucester's Trial and Death; Her Change of Allegiance; 3 Henry VI and Margaret's Self-Banishment |
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Reframing Rebellion as Military HeroismTwo Versions of History; Appeal to a Foreign Prince; Margaret's Last Stand; Richard III: Margaret's Refusal of Banishment; Cursing and Banning; Continuing Resistance; Concluding Remarks; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines Shakespeare's depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality, citizenship, and banishment, Sandra Logan takes up a set of questions not widely addressed by scholars of early modern queenship. How does Shakespeare's representation of these queens challenge the opposition between friend and enemy that ostensibly defines the context of the political? And how do these queens expose the abusive potential of the sovereign? Focusing on Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, and Margaret in the first history tetralogy, Logan considers them as means for exploring conditions of vulnerability, alienation, and exclusion common to subjects of every social position, exposing the sovereign himself as the true enemy of the state |
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Print version record |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Queens
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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History.
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Civilization -- History.
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Queens in literature.
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Literature, Modern.
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World politics.
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Sociology.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Gender expression.
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Gender identity.
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History
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Sociology
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Gender Identity
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history (discipline)
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sociology.
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sex role.
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Social & cultural history.
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Literary studies: general.
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Political science & theory.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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British & Irish history.
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History -- Social History.
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Political Science -- History & Theory.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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History -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Civilization.
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Gender expression.
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Gender identity.
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History.
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Literature, Modern.
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Politics and government.
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Queens in literature.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sociology.
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World politics.
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Great Britain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719
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Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137534842 |
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1137534842 |
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1137534834 |
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9781137534835 |
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