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Palgrave MacMillan Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens 2015 Edition by Carole Levin, Christine Stewart-Nunez
Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations. The book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Contributors study a wide range of queens including such famous and fascinating women as Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Hecuba, the Empress Matilda, Mary Stuart, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, and the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By pairing scholarly essays with contemporary poems about them, the collection demonstrates the continued relevance and immediacy of these powerful and fascinating women. Table of contents :- HecubaMarguerite Tassi, Tears for Hecuba: Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding's Translation of Ovid MetamorphosisMarguerite Tassi, Hecuba's DreamDarla Biefieldt, Hecuba LamentsCleopatraAndrea Nichols, 'I was not I?' Tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English DramaErika Stevens, Grand Unified TheoryBoudiccaKatarzyna Lecky, How the Iceni Became British: Holinshed's Boudicca and the Rhetoric of NaturalizationM. Wells, The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste Carole Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a QueenThe Empress MatildaCharles Beem, The Virtuous Virago: The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth Century EnglandDennis Henry, Maud and Ellie Play ChessQueen MargaretCarole Levin, Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles: She-Wolf or Heroic SpiritRegina Buccola, After LivesCatherine of AragonTheresa Earenfight, Regarding Catherine of Aragon Christine Stewart-Nunez, Of Books and Bijou: The Poet's Letter to Katherine Christine Stewart-Nunez, Granadas: Katherine to Her Daughter Mary StuartAlyson Alvarez, The Widow of Scots; Examining Mary Stuart in her Widowhoods Mary Ruth Donnelly, Mary Queen of Scots in HellElizabeth IPaul Strauss, The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church: Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court SermonsSonja Drimmer, Questionable Contexts: A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth's TeethAmber Harris Leichner, For My Eyes, Part 1Amber Harris Leichner, For My Eyes, Part 2Regina Buccola, The First of That NameGrace O'MalleyBrandie Siegfried, Notorious Irish Queen: Grainne Ni Mhaille, Graven Memory, and the Making of Legend Heidi Czerwiec, Grace: O'Malley meets the English Queen Gifts and Poison, Whispers and Letters Catherine Medici, More Than a Wife and Mother: Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens.Jo Carney, Poisoning Queens in Early Modern EnglandMegan Gannon, On the Revolutions of SpaceGrace Bauer, The Kingdom if I can