Showing Like a Queen : Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eggert, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Temas:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literature, Experimental > Great Britain > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies.
Gender Studies.
Literature.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Women's Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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