High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England Realities and Representations

by Levin, Carole; Barrett-Graves, Debra; Eldridge Carney, Jo

• ISBN13: 9781403960887
• ISBN10: 1403960887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

"High and Mighty Queens" of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of literary representations of earlier historical queens such as Cleopatra, and semi-historical ones such as Gertrude, Tamora, and Lady Macbeth, and such fictional ones as Hermione and the queen of Cymbeline, all of them Shakespeare characters. This fascinating look at Renaissance queens also examines myth and folklore, Romantic or Victorian representations, and the depictions of queens like Catherine de Medici of France in twentieth century film.

Author Biography

Carole Levin is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and author of The Reign of Elizabeth I.

Debra Barrett-Graves is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Santa Fe.

Jo Eldridge Carney is Assistant Professor of English at the College of New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
List of Illustrations	xii
Introduction	1	(8)
Carole Levin
Jo Eldridge Carney
Debra Barrett-Graves
Part I The Nature of Renaissance Queens	9	(68)
Transformation or Continuity? Sixteenth-Century Education and the Legacy of Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives	11	(16)
Timothy G. Elston
Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England	27	(18)
Judith M. Richards
Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Policy: The Circle of Anna of Denmark and the Beginning of the English Empire, 1614--18	45	(16)
Louis H. Roper
Negotiating Exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Court of Charles I	61	(16)
Karen L. Nelson
Part II Imaging Renaissance Queens and Power	77	(92)
``And a Queen of England, Too'': The `Englishing' of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History	79	(22)
Matthew C. Hansen
Whore Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State	101	(16)
Susan Dunn-Hensley
``Honoured Hippolyta, Most Dreaded Amazonian'': The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher	117	(16)
Jo Eldridge Carney
``No head eminent above the rest'': Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest	133	(18)
Sid Ray
``There's magic in thy majesty'': Queenship and Witch-Speak in Jacobean Shakespeare	151	(18)
Kirilka Stavreva
Part III Cultural Anxieties and Historical Echoes of Renaissance Queens	169	(88)
The Taming of the Queen: Foxe's Katherine and Shakespeare's Kate	171	(16)
Carole Levin
Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth	187	(16)
Joy Currie
Re-imagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon among the Victorians	203	(20)
Georgianna Ziegler
The Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot	223	(16)
Elaine Kruse
Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film	239	(18)
Retha M. Warnicke
Notes on Contributors	257	(4)
Index	261