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
Autor principal: Eggert, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Characters > Queens.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Queens.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Characters > Queens.
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603 > Influence.
Women in literature.
Queens in literature.
Literature, Experimental.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Feminism and literature.
English literature > Male authors.
English literature > Early modern.
Authority in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Autorite dans la litterature.
Litterature experimentale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
English literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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

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