Bertolet, Anna Riehl
Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies
1. Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole Levin
Anna Bertolet
Part I. Prelude: Studying Queens
2. Queenship and Power: The
Charles Beem
Part II. Queens and Matters of Gender
3. Did Elizabeth’s Gender Really Matter?
Susan Doran
4. A Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions
Catherine Loomis
5. “We Are Such Stuff”: Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor’s
Kirilka Stavreva
Part III. Queens and Marriage
6. Elizabeth I and the Marriage Crisis, John Lyly’s
Jane Donawerth
7. Tudor Consorts: The Politics of Matchmaking, 1483–1543
Retha M. Warnicke
8. The Queen’s Deathbed Wish in Early Modern Fairy Tales: Securing the Dynasty
Jo Eldridge Carney
Part IV. Queens and Religion
9. Spenser’s Dragon Fight and the English Queen: The Struggle Over the Elizabethan Settlement
Donald Stump
10. Anne Boleyn’s Legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the Iconography of Protestant Queenship
Helen Hackett
11. “A Network of Honor and Obligation”: Elizabeth as Godmother
Elaine Kruse
Part V. Queens, National Identity, and Diplomacy
12. Lesbianism in Early Modern Vernacular Romance: The Question of Historicity
John Watkins
13. Doppelgänger Queens: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart
Anna Bertolet
14. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Invoking Russia in Shakespeare’s
Linda Shenk
15. Queen Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan Court in the French Ambassador’s Eyes
Estelle Paranque
Part VI. Inspired by the Queen: Queens in Literature
16. Queen of Love: Elizabeth I and Mary Wroth
Ilona Bell
17. Dressing Queens (and Some Others): Signifying Through Clothing in Wroth’s
Mary Ellen Lamb
18. Conjuring Three Queens and an Empress: The Philosophy of Enchantment in Margaret Cavendish’s
Brandie R. Siegfried
Keywords: History, History of Early Modern Europe, Gender Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland
- Editor
- Bertolet, Anna Riehl
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Queenship and Power
- Page amount
- 19 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319640488
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-64047-1