Telltale Women : Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography /

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"In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to inve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyer, Allison Machlis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in literature.
Queens in literature.
Literature.
Historiography.
Historical drama, English.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Women > Political activity > Great Britain > Historiography.
Queens > Great Britain > Historiography.
Historical drama, English > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687 > Historiography.
Great Britain > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest women's voices with authority, while dramatists reshape this source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemn queenship and female power"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (372 pages).
ISBN:9781496224460

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