Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2000

Showing Like a Queen

In the series Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library

Showing Like a Queen argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage.

Katherine Eggert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Texts and Editions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Forms of Queenship: Female Rule and Literary Structure in the English Renaissance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Genre and the Repeal of Queenship in Spenser's Faerie Queene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3. Leading Ladies: Feminine Authority and Theatrical Effect in Shakespeare's History Plays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Exclaiming Against Their Own Succession: Queenship, Genre, and What Happens in Hamlet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. The Late Queen of Famous Memory: Nostalgic Form in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6. Milton's Queenly Paradise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Afterword: Queenship and New Feminine Genres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies

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