Scholars and poets talk about Queens /
edited by Carole Levin and associate editor, Christine Stewart-Nuñez.
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| Summary: | "Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Queens include such famous and fascinating women as Hecuba, Cleopatra, the Empress Matilda, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth I, and Grace O'Malley, a pirate queen. One can find, for example, an essay on Mary Stuart's responses to her widowhoods paired with Mary's lamentation from the afterlife. After reading the analysis of the Empress Matilda's efforts to gain the throne of England, one can also see the character of the much older Matilda playing chess with her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine"-- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Queenship and power
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xxii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781137534897 (hardback) |
Table of Contents:
Hecuba
Tears for Hecuba : Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding's Translation of Ovid Metamorphosis / Marguerite Tassi
Hecuba's Dream / Marguerite Tassi
Hecuba Laments / Darla Biefieldt
Cleopatra
"I was not I?" : tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama / Andrea Nichols
Grand Unified Theory / Erika Stevens
Boudicca
How the Iceni Became British : Holinshed's Boudicca and the Rhetoric of Naturalization / Katarzyna Lecky
The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste / M. Wells
The Heart and Stomach of a Queen / Carole Levin
The Empress Matilda
Charles Beem, The Virtuous Virago : The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth Century England
Dennis Henry, Maud and Ellie Play Chess Queen
Margaret
Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles : She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit / Carole Levin
After Lives / Regina Buccola
Catherine of Aragon
Regarding Catherine of Aragon / Theresa Earenfight
Of Books and Bijou : The Poet's Letter to Katherine / Christine Stewart-Nunez
Granadas : Katherine to Her Daughter / Christine Stewart-Nunez
Mary Stuart
The Widow of Scots : Examining Mary Stuart in her Widowhoods / Alyson Alvarez
Mary Queen of Scots in Hell / Mary Ruth Donnelly
Elizabeth I
The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church : Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court Sermons / Paul Strauss
Questionable Contexts : A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth's Teeth / Sonja Drimmer
For My Eyes, Part 1 / Amber Harris Leichner
For My Eyes, Part 2 / Amber Harris Leichner
The First of That Name / Regina Buccola
Grace O'Malley
Notorious Irish Queen : Grainne Ni Mhaille, Graven Memory, and the Making of Legend / Brandie Siegfried
Grace : O'Malley meets the English Queen / Heidi Czerwiec
Gifts and Poison, Whispers and Letters
More Than a Wife and Mother : Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens / Catherine Medici
Poisoning Queens in Early Modern England / Jo Carney
On the Revolutions of Space / Megan Gannon
The Kingdom if I can / Grace Bauer.
Hecuba
Tears for Hecuba : Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding's Translation of Ovid Metamorphosis / Marguerite Tassi
Hecuba's Dream / Marguerite Tassi
Hecuba Laments / Darla Biefieldt
Cleopatra
"I was not I?" : tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama / Andrea Nichols
Grand Unified Theory / Erika Stevens
Boudicca
How the Iceni Became British : Holinshed's Boudicca and the Rhetoric of Naturalization / Katarzyna Lecky
The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste / M. Wells
The Heart and Stomach of a Queen / Carole Levin
The Empress Matilda
Charles Beem, The Virtuous Virago : The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth Century England
Dennis Henry, Maud and Ellie Play Chess Queen
Margaret
Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles : She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit / Carole Levin
After Lives / Regina Buccola
Catherine of Aragon
Regarding Catherine of Aragon / Theresa Earenfight
Of Books and Bijou : The Poet's Letter to Katherine / Christine Stewart-Nunez
Granadas : Katherine to Her Daughter / Christine Stewart-Nunez
Mary Stuart
The Widow of Scots : Examining Mary Stuart in her Widowhoods / Alyson Alvarez
Mary Queen of Scots in Hell / Mary Ruth Donnelly
Elizabeth I
The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church : Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court Sermons / Paul Strauss
Questionable Contexts : A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth's Teeth / Sonja Drimmer
For My Eyes, Part 1 / Amber Harris Leichner
For My Eyes, Part 2 / Amber Harris Leichner
The First of That Name / Regina Buccola
Grace O'Malley
Notorious Irish Queen : Grainne Ni Mhaille, Graven Memory, and the Making of Legend / Brandie Siegfried
Grace : O'Malley meets the English Queen / Heidi Czerwiec
Gifts and Poison, Whispers and Letters
More Than a Wife and Mother : Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens / Catherine Medici
Poisoning Queens in Early Modern England / Jo Carney
On the Revolutions of Space / Megan Gannon
The Kingdom if I can / Grace Bauer.