Anna of Denmark; Queen in Two Kingdoms

ISBN-13: 9781789973419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 290 str.

Steven Veerapen

Opis

Anna of Denmark has been castigated as frivolous, vain, stupid, and more interested in pleasure than politics. This study aims to contextualise her not as a woman of minor significance in relation to the queens regnant of the sixteenth century, but as an inheritor of the bloody legacies of previous consorts north and south of the border.

Spis treści

Contents: To Be a Consort and Wear a Crown - Denmark - The Danish Girl - The Old Young Man - The Princess Bride - By Weltring Waues - Vehement Winter - Scotland - Anna, Our Welbelovit Queene - The Woman of Property - All of Them Witches - The Invention of Tradition - Strange Bedfellows - Catholic Queen, Kirk and Killer King - And Either Victory or Else a Grave - England - Hail and Welcome, Fairest Queen! - Our Queen Is a Catholic in Heart - Blessed Are the Peacemakers - Rumour Doth Double - Two Fair Youths - Loss and Marriage - Suns That Set - Will Ye No Come Back Again? - For Sure No Good Prince Dies.

O autorze

Pursuing an interest in sixteenth-century literature, Steven Veerapen was awarded a first-class Honours degree in English, with a thesis focussing on Renaissance literary depictions of Henry VIII's six wives. He then received an MLitt in Renaissance Studies, with his Masters' thesis examining depictions of Elizabeth I in early modern drama and chronicle histories. This was followed by a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, the focus of which was on Elizabethan slanderous and seditious material. He now lectures in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include early modern Anglo-Scottish relations and representations of authority and resistance in early modern drama.