Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation (Queenship and Power)

This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction —centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England's first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture. Acknowledgements Praise for Mary I in Writing Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Consort and Regnant “By Your Loving Mother”: Lessons in Queenship from Catherine of Aragon to Her Daughter, Mary References Negotiating Queenship: Ritual Practice, Material Evidence, and Mary I’s Narrative of Authority Bibliography Rise and Representation “More to Be Feared Than Fearful Herself”: Contrasting Representations of Mary I in Sixteenth-Century Chronicles and Firsthand Accounts Royal Histories: Historia Pro Persona and Historia Pro Patria Early Tudor Chronicles: André and Vergil Diaries and Personal Accounts Royally Sanctioned Chronicles: Secular and Sacred Bibliography “Marie Our Maistresse”: The Queen at Her Accession Poor Pratte Popular Accounts of the Accession Foreign Perspectives Lost Sources Conclusion References Constructing Kingship What Mary Did First: Re-Assessing the Biblical Analogies of England’s First Female King Securing the Throne The Aftermath of the Wyatt Rebellion A Royal Iconography Securing the Dynasty Bibliography “Horrible and Bloudye” or “Most Serene and Potent”: Mary I and Empire The Imperiall Crowne of This Realme Englishe Subtes to Be Planted in Their Landes Open a Way and Passage to Our Men A People of Beastly Liuing Bibliography Material Manifestations Mary’s Participation in the Ritual of the New Year’s Gift Exchange as Princess and Queen Bibliography Accounting Legitimacy in Purple and Gold: Mary Tudor, Household Accounts, and the English Succession “Our Dearest, Best Beloved, and Onelye Daughter, the Princess” “As to so Great a Princes Doeth Appertaine” “The Court and Service of Elizabeth, Named Princess” “Not Lawful, yet King’s Daughters” “Conforming Herself Entirely to Her father’s Commands” “Your Near Relationship to Us, Your Exalted Rank” References Memory and Myth Happily Ever After? Elizabethan Representations of Mary I and Philip II’s Marriage Introduction Marian Perspectives of Mary and Philip’s Marriage Elizabethan Perceptions The Black Legend John White’s “Funerall Sermon” (1558) Nicholas Bacon’s “A Discourse of Queene Elizabethes Mariage Withe [François] Ye Duke of Aniowe” (1570) Raphael Holinshed et al.’s Chronicle (1577/1587) John Stubbe’s “The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf” (1579) John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1583) A Fig for the Spaniard (1591) Conclusion Bibliography “She ...Yielded a Mild and Gracious Spirit into the Hands of Her Maker”: Three Catholic Accounts of the Death of Mary I Bibliography Mary I During the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Memory and Catholic Remembrance Mary I Remembered in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Mary I and Catholicism in Restoration England Mary I: The Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index This book-along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language-written, spoken, and acted out-and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England's first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.-- Provided by publisher.