| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 397 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Queenship and Power |
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Queenship and power.
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| Contents |
Introduction: studies of queens in honor of Carole Levin / Anna Riehl Bertolet -- Queenship and power: the heart and stomach of a book series / Charles Beem -- Did Elizabeth's gender really matter? / Susan Doran -- A great reckoning in a little room: Elizabeth, Essex, and royal interruptions / Catherine Loomis -- "We are such stuff": absolute feminine power vs. cinematic myth-making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010) / Kirilka Stavreva -- Elizabeth I and the marriage crisis, John Lyly's Campaspe, and the politics of court drama / Jane Donawerth -- Tudor consorts: the poltics of matchmaking, 1483-1543 / Retha M. Warnicke -- The queen's deathbed wish in early modern fairy tales: securing the dynasty / Jo Eldridge Carney -- Spenser's dragon fight and the English Queen: the struggle over the Elizabethan settlement / Donald Stump -- Anne Bolelyn's legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the iconography of Protestant queenship / Helen Hackett -- "A network of honor and obligation": Elizabeth as godmother / Elaine Kruse -- Lesbianism in early modern vernacular romance: the question of historicity / John Watkins -- Doppelgänger queens: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart / Anna Riehl Bertolet -- Elizabeth I and the politics of invoking Russia in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost / Linda Shenk -- Queen Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan court in the French Ambassador's eyes / Estelle Paranque -- Queen of love: Elizabeth I and Mary Worth / Ilona Bell -- Dressing queens (and some others): signifying through clothing in Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Conjuring three queens and an empress: the philosophy of enchantment in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World / Brandie R. Siegfried -- AppendixA. Works by Carole Levin -- Appendix B. The "Queenship and power" series |
| Summary |
The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives - historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-386) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Queens.
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Queens in literature.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Queens
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Queens in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bertolet, Anna Riehl, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783319640488 |
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3319640488 |
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