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Showing like a queen : female authority and literary experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Showing Like a Queen
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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 ParadiseAfterword: Queenship and New Feminine Genres
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index