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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eggert, Katherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2000.
Subjects:
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.
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603
Milton, John, > 1608-1674
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599
1500-1700
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.
English literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
Authority in literature.
Queens in literature.
Women in literature.
Littérature expérimentale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
Autorité dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Authority in literature
English literature > Early modern
English literature > Male authors
Feminism and literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature, Experimental
Queens in literature
Women in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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