Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: Talking about Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Tears for Hecuba: Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding’s Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses....Pages 7-23
Hecuba’s Dream....Pages 25-28
Hecuba Laments....Pages 29-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
“I was not I?”: Tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama, 1592–1611....Pages 33-50
Grand Unified Theory....Pages 51-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
How the Iceni Became British: Holinshed’s Boudicca and the Rhetoric of Naturalization....Pages 55-73
The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste....Pages 75-76
The Heart and Stomach of a Queen....Pages 77-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Virtuous Virago: The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth-Century England....Pages 85-98
Maude and Ellie Play Chess....Pages 99-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles: She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit....Pages 111-131
After Lives....Pages 133-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Regarding Catherine of Aragon....Pages 137-157
Of Books and Bijou: The Poet’s Letter to Katherine....Pages 159-159
Granadas: Katherine to Her Daughter....Pages 161-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Widow of Scots: Examining Mary Stewart in Her Widowhoods....Pages 165-180
Mary Queen of Scots in Hell....Pages 181-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church: Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court Sermons....Pages 185-202
Questionable Contexts: A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth’s Teeth....Pages 203-224
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
For My Eyes, Part 1....Pages 225-226
For My Eyes, Part 2....Pages 227-228
The First of That Name....Pages 229-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Notorious: Gráinne Ní Mháille, Graven Memory, and the Uses of Irish Legend....Pages 233-249
GRACE: O’Malley Meets the English Queen (1593)....Pages 251-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
More Than a Wife and Mother: Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens....Pages 255-268
Poisoning Queens in Early Modern Fact and Fiction....Pages 269-284
On the Revolutions of Space....Pages 285-285
The Kingdom If I Can....Pages 287-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-299