Remembering queens and kings of early modern England and France : reputation, reinterpretation, and reincarnation /
This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how queens and kings were remembered, represented and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays and visual...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Queenship and power.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Remembering, forgetting, and the power of memory / Estelle Paranque
- Part I. Reputation in premodern literature. Boudicca and Elizabeth rally their troops: "Two queens both alike in dignity / Carole Levin ; Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as represented in a seventeenth-century French love story / Valerie Schutte ; Virtue betray'd: women writing Anne Boleyn in the long eighteenth century / Stephanie Russo ; "Of hopes great as Himselfe": Tudor and Stuart legacies of Edward VI / Benjamin M Guyer ; Chivalry, nobility, and romance: Richard Hurd and the ideal Elizabethan past / Jurriaan van Santvoort
- Part II. Reinterpretation in art. Charles IX of France or the anti-King: his legacy in plays and chronicles in seventeenth- and long eighteenth-century France / Estelle Paranque ; Remembering--and forgetting-- regicide: the commemoration of the 30th of January, 1649-1660 / Imogen Peck ; Henrietta Maria, "Queen of Tears"?: Picturing and performing the Cavalier Queen / Sarah Betts ; Romantic recreations: remembering Stuart monarchy in nineteenth-century fancy dress entertainments / Benjamin L. Wild
- Part III. Reincarnation in popular culture. She-wolf or feminist heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in modern history and literature / Imgene Dudley ; Reincarnating the forgotten Francis II: from puerile pubescent to heroic heartthrob / Kelly D. Peebles ; Daenerys Targaryen as Queen Elizabeth I's spiritual daughter / Estelle Paranque ; 50 shades of Elizabeth; or, "Doing hisory" in pop fiction / Elizabeth Ann Mackay ; Conniving queen, frivolous wife, or romantic heroine? The afterflife of Queen Henrietta Maria / Susan Dunn-Hensley ; "Let them eat cake, she says": assessing Marie-Antoinette's image / Courtney Herber.