The Last Plantagenet Consorts

1. Introduction: The Queen as Cipher in the Medieval Period
Kavita Mudan Finn

2. Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century
Kavita Mudan Finn

3. “By meane of a woman”: Changing the Subject in Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More’s History of King Richard the Third
Kavita Mudan Finn

4. “The point of a very woman”: Gendering Destabilization in Edward Hall’s Union and Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles
Kavita Mudan Finn

5. Queens in the Margins: Allegorizing Anxiety in A Mirror for Magistrates
Kavita Mudan Finn

6. Performing Queenship in Legge’s Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy of Richard III, and Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV
Kavita Mudan Finn

7. “A queen in jest”: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
Kavita Mudan Finn

8. “The fetters of her sex”: Voicing Queens in the Historical Poetry of Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel
Kavita Mudan Finn

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, European History, Modern History, Historiography and Method