Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens [electronic resource] /
Levin, Carole.editor.
Stewart-Nuñez, Christine.editor.
Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations. The book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Contributors study a wide range of queens including such famous and fascinating women as Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Hecuba, the Empress Matilda, Mary Stuart, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, and the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By pairing scholarly essays with contemporary poems about them, the collection demonstrates the continued relevance and immediacy of these powerful and fascinating women.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Talking About Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens; Hecuba; Tears for Hecuba: Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; Hecuba's Dream; Hecuba Laments; Cleopatra; ""I was not I?"": Tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama, 1592-1611; Grand Unified Theory; Boudicca; How the Iceni Became British: Holinshed's Boudicca and the Rhetoric of Naturalization; The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste
The Heart and Stomach of a QueenThe Empress Matilda; The Virtuous Virago: The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth-Century England; Maude and Ellie Play Chess; Queen Margaret; Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles: She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit; After Lives; Catherine of Aragon; Regarding Catherine of Aragon; Of Books and Bijou: The Poet's Letter to Katherine; Granadas: Katherine to Her Daughter; Mary Stuart; The Widow of Scots: Examining Mary Stewart in Her Widowhoods; Mary Queen of Scots in Hell; Elizabeth I
The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church: Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court SermonsQuestionable Contexts: A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth's Teeth; For My Eyes, Part 1; For My Eyes, Part 2; The First of That Name; Grace O'Malley; Notorious: Gráinne Ní Mháille, Graven Memory, and the Uses of Irish Legend; GRACE: O'Malley Meets the English Queen (1593); Gifts and Poison, Whispers and Letters; More Than a Wife and Mother: Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens; Poisoning Queens in Early Modern Fact and Fiction; On the Revolutions of Space
The Kingdom if I CanIndex
Includes index.
Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations. The book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Contributors study a wide range of queens including such famous and fascinating women as Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Hecuba, the Empress Matilda, Mary Stuart, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, and the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By pairing scholarly essays with contemporary poems about them, the collection demonstrates the continued relevance and immediacy of these powerful and fascinating women.
History, Ancient.
Poetry.
World history.
European History.
Ancient History.
Poetry and Poetics.
World History, Global and Transnational History.