High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations (Queenship and Power)

High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of literary representations of earlier historical queens such as Cleopatra, and semi-historical ones such as Gertrude, Tamora, and Lady Macbeth, and such fictional ones as Hermione and the queen of Cymbeline, all of them Shakespeare characters. This fascinating look at Renaissance queens also examines myth and folklore, Romantic or Victorian representations, and the depictions of queens like Catherine de Medici of France in twentieth century film. -- From publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Transformation or Continuity? Sixteenth-Century Education and the Legacy of Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives....Pages 11-26 Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England....Pages 27-43 Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Policy: the Circle of Anna of Denmark and the Beginning of the English Empire, 1614–18....Pages 45-59 Negotiating Exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Court of Charles I....Pages 61-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 “And a Queen of England, Too”: The ‘Englishing’ of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History....Pages 79-99 Whore Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State....Pages 101-116 “Honoured Hippolyta, Most Dreaded Amazonian”: The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher....Pages 117-131 “No head eminent above the rest”: Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest....Pages 133-150 “There’s magic in thy majesty”: Queenship and Witch-Speak in Jacobean Shakespeare....Pages 151-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 The Taming of the Queen: Foxe’s Katherine and Shakespeare’s Kate....Pages 171-186 Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth....Pages 187-202 Re-imagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon among the Victorians....Pages 203-222 The Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot....Pages 223-237 Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film....Pages 239-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-271