The Queen's Mercy [electronic resource] : Gender and Judgment in Representations of Elizabeth I /
Villeponteaux, M.author.
During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Texts; Chapter 1 "By Nature Full of Mercy": The Clemency of the Queen; Chapter 2 "The Sacred Pledge of Peace and Clemencie": Elizabethan Mercy in The Faerie Queene; Chapter 3 "Proud and Pitilesse": Elizabethan Mercy and the Sonnet Tradition; Chapter 4 "A Goodly Musicke in Her Regiment": Elusive Justice in The Merchant of Venice; Chapter 5 "Pardon Is Still the Nurse of Second Woe": Measure for Measure and the Transition from Elizabeth to James
Chapter 6 "Good Queene, You Must Be Rul'd": Feminine Mercy in the Plays of Heywood and DekkerNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Great Britain—History.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Literature, Modern.
Sociology.
Europe—History—1492-.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Modern History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
History of Early Modern Europe.