The Queen’s Mercy

1. “By Nature Full of Mercy”: The Clemency of the Queen
Mary Villeponteaux

2. “The Sacred Pledge of Peace and Clemencie”: Elizabethan Mercy in The Faerie Queene
Mary Villeponteaux

3. “Proud and Pitilesse”: Elizabethan Mercy and the Sonnet Tradition
Mary Villeponteaux

4. “A Goodly Musicke in Her Regiment”: Elusive Justice in The Merchant of Venice
Mary Villeponteaux

5. “Pardon Is Still the Nurse of Second Woe”: Measure for Measure and the Transition from Elizabeth to James
Mary Villeponteaux

6. “Good Queene, You Must Be Rul’d”: Feminine Mercy in the Plays of Heywood and Dekker
Mary Villeponteaux

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Modern History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Gender Studies, History of Early Modern Europe