The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Bibliography
Part I: General Studies
	Chapter 2: Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality on the Shakespearean Stage
		The Queen’s Two Bodies
		A Player’s Two Bodies
		“Wanton Queans” and Queens on Stage
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Shakespeare’s Queens and Collective Forces: Facing Aristocracy, Dealing with Crowds
		The Unexpected Power of Shakespeare’s First Queen
		From She-wolf of France to Nemesis
		Failed Queenship?
		The Politics of Love
		Dealing with Common People: A Touchstone for Shakespeare’s Queens?
		Bibliography
Part II: Queenship and Sovereignty
	Chapter 4: “I Trust I May Not Trust Thee”: Queens and Royal Women’s Visions of the World in King John
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Cordelia, Foreign Queenship, and the Commonweal
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: “Tremble at Patience”: Constant Queens and Female Solidarity in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter’s Tale
		The Late Queens: Queens in Shakespeare’s Last Plays, and Nostalgia for Elizabeth I
		“Tremble at Patience”: The Winter’s Tale
		“Lend Us a Knee”: The Two Noble Kinsmen
		Bibliography
Part III: Queenship and Motherhood
	Chapter 7: “To Beare the Name of a Quéene”: Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester and Lady Macbeth: Queenship and Motherhood
		Holinshed’s Chronicles and Shakespeare
		Eleanor: From Holinshed’s Chronicles to 2 Henry VI
		Lady Macbeth: From Holinshed’s Chronicles to Macbeth
		Eleanor and Lady Macbeth: Queenship and Motherhood
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Womb Rhetoric: The Martial Maternity of Volumnia, Tamora, and Elizabeth I
		Volumnia: The War-Making Womb
		Tamora: Transitioning from Womb to Rhetoric
		Elizabeth: Childless Mother of a Nation
		Martial Maternity in Its Own Words
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: “Good queen, my lord, good queen”: Royal Mothers in Shakespeare’s Plays
		Bibliography
Part IV: Queenship and Rhetoric
	Chapter 10: Margaret of Anjou and the Rhetoric of Sovereign Vengeance
		Revenge as a Rhetoric of Empowerment
		Gender and Revenge in the Sixteenth Century
		Margaret and (Anti-)Social Agency
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: “I Can No Longer Hold Me Patient!”: Margaret, Anger, and Political Voice in Richard III
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra as Meta-Theatrical Monarch
		Bibliography
Part V: Absent/Missing Queens
	Chapter 13: “Nothing Hath Begot My Something Grief”: Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
		“Flattering Glass”: Richard II and the Mirror of Queenship
		“A Woman’s Voice May Do Some Good”: Absent Queenship in the Henriad
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: The Queen’s Two Bodies in The Winter’s Tale
		Double Bodies: Dividing the Queen
		Redemption and Resurrection: The Queen’s New Body Natural
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn’s Queenship in Henry VIII
		Henry’s Political Performance and Tudor-Stuart Mythologies
		Shifting Orders, Shifting Roles, Shifting Queens
		Containing the Subject
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: The Fortification and Containment of Elizabeth I’s Rhetoric and Performance in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII
		Elizabeth’s Two Bodies
		Cranmer’s Allusion to the Queen’s Two Bodies
		Containing the Queen’s Rhetoric?
		The Cyclical Replacement and Containment of the Female Body
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part VI: Staging Queens and Contemporary Politics
	Chapter 17: The Princess’ Political Mission in Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Embassy to Get Aquitaine and “All that Is” Navarre’s
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18: Katherine of Aragon, Protestant Purity, and the Anxieties of Cultural Mixing in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: “The Ambition in My Love”: The Theater of Courtly Conduct in All’s Well that Ends Well
		Emotional Management and Courtly Honor
		Status and Survival
		“The Ambition in My Love”
		Conclusions
		Bibliography
Part VII: Queenship and Intertextuality
	Chapter 20: As Wise as She Is Beautiful: Reconciling Shakespeare’s Fairy Queen and Spenser’s Faerie Queene
		Titania and Gloriana as Elizabethan Representations or Literary Foils
		Titania and Gloriana as Rulers of Fairy Realms
		The Fairy Queens and Genre
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 21: The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(fé)rance in Love’s Labour’s Lost
		Gender Difference
		France and Navarre
		Différance
		Bibliography
	Chapter 22: “A Gap in Nature”: Rewriting Cleopatra Through Antony and Cleopatra’s Cosmology
		Works Cited
	Chapter 23: En un infierno los dos: Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra
		Historical Context and Source Material
		As Honor Plays
		Motherhood: Redemption and Damnation
		Wife and Queen: Authority, Vice, and Vindication
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part VIII: Performing Queenship
	Chapter 24: Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare’s Adapted Heroine
		Bibliography
	Chapter 25: The Bard, the Bride, and the Muse Bemused: Katherine of Valois on Film in Shakespeare’s Henry V
		Bibliography
			Films
			Novels
			Online
	Chapter 26: The “Squeaking Cleopatra Boy”: Performance of the Queen’s Two Bodies on the Early Modern Stage
		Two Bodies
		“Quick Comedians Extemporally Will Stage Us”
		“Of Excellent Dissembling”
		“I Have Nothing of Woman in Me”
		“Harping on What I Am, Not What He Knew I Was”
		“Let Women Die”
		Conclusions
		Works Cited
Afterword
Index