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.
Author(s): Carole Levin, Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Series: Queenship and Power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 321
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 Queen
The 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 Sermons
Questionable 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 Can
Index
