The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Finn, Kavita Mudan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schutte, Valerie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern.; Sociology.; Theater-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Literary History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Gender Studies.; Theatre History.

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare's...