Shakespeare's Foreign Queens Drama, Politics, and the Enemy Within /

• Main Author: Logan, Sandra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Civilization-History.; Literature, Modern.; World politics.; Sociology.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Cultural History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Political History.; Gender Studies.

This book examines Shakespeare's depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality, citizenship, and banishm...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Foreign Queens, Abusive Sovereignty, and Political Authority in the Past and the Present
• 2.Katherine of Aragon's Fragmented Identity in Henry VIII
• 3. The Friend, the Enemy, the Wife, and the Guest: Conditional and Unconditional Hospitality in The Winter's Tale
• 4. Strange Bedfellows: Friend, Enemy, and the Commonweal in Titus Andronicus
• 5. Margaret and the Ban: Resistances to Sovereign Authority in Henry VI 1, 2, & 3 and Richard III.