The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

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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 witha 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.
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 themesand methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies.
Winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal book prize

Provides a comprehensive reference for scholars and students of early modern history, performance, literature, and gender Covers the spectrum of fictional and historical queens present in Shakespeare’s plays Analyzes issues of motherhood, contemporary politics, performance, intertextuality, and gender Winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal book prize

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Kavita Mudan Finn

Themen in »The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens«

Shakespeare Elizabeth I Shakespearean Queens Margaret of Anjou Anne Boleyn Cordelia King Lear Hermione Lady Macbeth Tamora Henry VI English queens Mary Stuart Catherine de Valois early modern performance

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“Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte’s edited collection on Shakespeare’s queens is a welcome addition to the small, but growing, pool of work that focuses on the female in Shakespeare. … The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens provides students and scholars alike with a thorough overview of the themes, contexts, and influences of Shakespeare’s often underestimated and overlooked queens.” (Elizabeth Hoyt, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 51 (4), 2020)

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