High and mighty queens of early modern England: realities and representations

This book is an interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. INDICE: Introduction; C.Levin, J.E.Carney& D.Barrett-Graves - PART I: THE NATURE OF RENAISSANCE QUEENS - On Education of an Early Modern Queen: Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives; T.G.Elston - Mary I: England's FirstRenaissance Queen; J.Richards - Elizabeth as Sacred Monarch; C.Levin - Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Colonization: Anna of Denmark, Pocahontas, Ben Jonson, and the Start of the English Empire, 1614-1616; L.Roper - Negotiating Charles I: Henrietta Maria and Elizabeth of Bohemia in theLate 1620s; K.Nelson - PART II: IMAGING RENAISSANCE QUEENS AND POWER - And a Queen of England, Too: The 'Englishing' of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History; M.Hensen - To live eternized in the House of Fame: Renaissance Poets and the Imaging of Queenship; D.Barrett-Graves - 'Whore' Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State; S.Dunn-Hensley - 'We Have Been Soldiers': The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare andFletcher; J.E.Carney - 'No head eminent above the rest': Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest; S.Ray - 'There's Magic in Thy Magesty': Queenship andWitch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage; K.Stavreva - PART III: CULTURAL ANXIETIES AND HISTORICAL ECHOES OF RENAISSANCE QUEENS - Mary Queen of Scots as SufferingWoman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth; J.Currie - Queen Katherine's Dream: Representations of Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn inthe Victorian Age; G.Ziegler - Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film; R.Warnicke - Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de' Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot; E.Kruse - Afterword; L.Cowen Orlin

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62118-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés