The Last Plantagenet Consorts

Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-39299-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Queenship and Power

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century  'By Meane of a Woman': Changing the Subject in Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More's History of King Richard the Third  'The point of a very woman': Gendering Destabilization in Edward Hall's Union and Raphael Holinshed's Chronicle  Queens in the Margins: Allegorizing Anxiety in A Mirror for Magistrates  Performing Queenship in Legge's Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy of Richard III, and Heywood's Edward IV  'A Queen in Jest': Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy 'The Fetters of Her Sex': Voicing Queens in the Historical Poetry of Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel

Über Autor(innen)

Kavita Mudan holds a doctorate in English Language and Literature from University of Oxford, Linacre College.