The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens
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| Summary: | XIX, 530 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Queenship and Power,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74518-3 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- I. General Studies
- 2. Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality on the Shakespearean Stage
- 3. Shakespeare's Queens and Collective Forces: Facing Aristocracy, Dealing with Crowds
- II. Queenship & Sovereignty
- 4. "I trust I may not trust thee": Queens and Royal Women's Visions of the World in King John
- 5. Cordelia, Foreign Queenship, and the Commonweal
- 6. "Tremble at patience": Constant Queens and Female Solidarity in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter's Tale
- III. Queenship & Motherhood
- 7. "...to beare the name of a queene": Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, and Lady Macbeth: Queens and Motherhood
- 8. Womb Rhetoric: The Martial Maternity of Volumnia, Tamora, and Elizabeth I
- 9. "Good queen, my lord, good queen": Royal Mothers in Shakespeare's Plays
- IV. Queenship & Rhetoric
- 10. Margaret of Anjou and the Rhetoric of Sovereign Violence
- 11. "I can no longer hold me patient!": Margaret, Anger, and Political Voice in Richard III
- 12. Shakespeare's Cleopatra as Metatheatrical Monarch
- V. Absent/Missing Queens
- 13. "Nothing Hath Begot My Something Grief": Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
- 14. The Queen's Two Bodies in The Winter's Tale
- 15. The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn's Queenship in Henry VIII, or All is True
- 16. The Fortification and Containment of Queen Elizabeth I's Rhetoric and Performance in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII
- VI. Staging Queens & Contemporary Politics
- 17. The Princess' Political Mission in Love Labour's Lost: The Embassy to get Aquitaine and "all that is" Navarre's
- 18. Katherine of Aragon, Protestant Purity, and the Anxieties of Cultural Mixing in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s King Henry VIII
- 19. “The Ambition in my Love”: The Theatre of Courtly Conduct in All’s Well That Ends Well
- VII. Queenship & Intertextuality
- 20. As Wise as She is Beautiful: Reconciling Shakespeare’s Fairy Queen and Spenser’s Faerie Queene
- 21. The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(fé)rance in Love’s Labour’s Lost
- 22. “A gap in nature”: Re-writing Cleopatra Through Antony and Cleopatra’s Cosmology
- 23. En un infierno los dos: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra
- VIII. Performing Queenship
- 24. Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's Adapted Heroine
- 25. The Bard, the Bride, and the Muse Bemused: Katherine de Valois on Film in Shakespeare’s Henry V
- 26. The “squeaking Cleopatra boy”: Performance of the Queen’s Two Bodies on the Early Modern Stage.