Showing Like a Queen : : Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton / / Katherine Eggert.
For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser,...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Texts and Editions
- 1. Forms of Queenship: Female Rule and Literary Structure in the English Renaissance
- 2. Genre and the Repeal of Queenship in Spenser's Faerie Queene
- 3. Leading Ladies: Feminine Authority and Theatrical Effect in Shakespeare's History Plays
- 4. Exclaiming Against Their Own Succession: Queenship, Genre, and What Happens in Hamlet
- 5. The Late Queen of Famous Memory: Nostalgic Form in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale
- 6. Milton's Queenly Paradise
- Afterword: Queenship and New Feminine Genres
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index