The Last Plantagenet Consorts

Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627

Kavita Mudan Finn

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780230392984
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230392991
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Queen as Cipher in the Medieval Period
• 1 Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century
• 2 “By meane of a woman”: Changing the Subject in Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More’s History of King Richard the Third
• 3 “The point of a very woman”: Gendering Destabilization in Edward Hall’s Union and Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles
• 4 Queens in the Margins: Allegorizing Anxiety in A Mirror for Magistrates
• 5 Performing Queenship in Legge’s Richardus Tertius , The True Tragedy of Richard III , and Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV
• 6 “A qu een in jest”: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
• 7 “The fetters of her sex”: Voicing Queens in the Historical Poetry of Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index