The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

ISBN-13: 9783319745176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 530 str.

Kavita Mudan Finn; Valerie Schutte

Opis

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. Essays span Shakespeare's career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter's Tale;

Spis treści

1. Introduction

I. General Studies

2. Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality on the Shakespearean Stage

3. Shakespeare's Queens and Collective Forces: Facing Aristocracy, Dealing with Crowds.- II. Queenship & Sovereignty

4. "I trust I may not trust thee": Queens and Royal Women's Visions of the World in King John

5. Cordelia, Foreign Queenship, and the Commonweal

6. "Tremble at patience": Constant Queens and Female Solidarity in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter's Tale.- III. Queenship & Motherhood

7. "...to beare the name of a queene": Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, and Lady Macbeth: Queens and Motherhood

8. Womb Rhetoric: The Martial Maternity of Volumnia, Tamora, and Elizabeth I

9. "Good queen, my lord, good queen": Royal Mothers in Shakespeare's Plays

IV. Queenship & Rhetoric

10. Margaret of Anjou and the Rhetoric of Sovereign Violence

11. "I can no longer hold me patient!": Margaret, Anger, and Political Voice in Richard III

12. Shakespeare's Cleopatra as Metatheatrical Monarch

V. Absent/Missing Queens

13. "Nothing Hath Begot My Something Grief": Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy

14. The Queen's Two Bodies in The Winter's Tale

15. The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn's Queenship in Henry VIII, or All is True

16. The Fortification and Containment of Queen Elizabeth I's Rhetoric and Performance in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII

VI. Staging Queens & Contemporary Politics

17. The Princess' Political Mission in Love Labour's Lost: The Embassy to get Aquitaine and "all that is" Navarre's

18. Katherine of Aragon, Protestant Purity, and the Anxieties of Cultural Mixing in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s King Henry VIII

19. “The Ambition in my Love”: The Theatre of Courtly Conduct in All’s Well That Ends Well

VII. Queenship & Intertextuality

20. As Wise as She is Beautiful: Reconciling Shakespeare’s Fairy Queen and Spenser’s Faerie Queene

21.  The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(fé)rance in Love’s Labour’s Lost

22. “A gap in nature”: Re-writing Cleopatra Through Antony and Cleopatra’s Cosmology

23. En un infierno los dos: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra

VIII. Performing Queenship

24. Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's Adapted Heroine

25. The Bard, the Bride, and the Muse Bemused: Katherine de Valois on Film in Shakespeare’s Henry V

26. The “squeaking Cleopatra boy”: Performance of the Queen’s Two Bodies on the Early Modern Stage

O autorze

Kavita Mudan Finn has taught medieval and early modern literature at Georgetown, University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Simmons College, USA. She is the author of The Last Plantagenet Consorts (Palgrave 2012).

Valerie Schutte is the author of Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (Palgrave 2015) and has edited several collections on early modern kings and queens. 

Blurb

Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare’s career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; from vengeful Tamora in Titus Andronicus to Lady Macbeth. Early chapters situate readers in the critical concerns underpinning any discussion of Shakespeare and queenship: the ambiguous figure of Elizabeth I, and the knotty issue of gender presentation. The focus then moves to analysis of issues such as motherhood, intertextuality, and contemporary political contexts; close readings of individual plays; and investigations of rhetoric and theatricality. Featuring twenty-five chapters with a rich variety of themes and methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies.