Table Of ContentThe Palgrave Handbook
of Shakespeare’s Queens
Edited by
Kavita Mudan Finn · Valerie Schutte
Queenship and Power
Series Editors
Charles Beem
University of North Carolina
Pembroke, NC, USA
Carole Levin
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE, USA
This series focuses on works specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies,
literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic
history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens—
both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents—pursued in order to
wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. The
works describe queenship in Europe as well as many other parts of the world,
including East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization.
More information about this series at
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Kavita Mudan Finn • Valerie Schutte
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Handbook of
Shakespeare’s Queens
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Kavita Mudan Finn Valerie Schutte
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Manchester, NH, USA Beaver Falls, PA, USA
Queenship and Power
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A
cknowledgments
This collection was made possible with the encouragement and support of
several people. First, we wish to thank Carole Levin and Charles Beem, editors
for the Queenship and Power series, who encouraged our collection from the
outset and offered valuable support throughout the process. The editorial staff
at Palgrave Macmillan, especially Megan Laddusaw and Christine Pardue, have
answered numerous emails and negotiated how to include this book in two
notable Palgrave series. We also thank all of our contributors for their hard
work and unique and innovative chapters, the two anonymous reviewers who
provided generous and useful suggestions for improvement, and wish to offer
special thanks to Courtney Herber of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who
also produced the index to this volume.
We are both independent, unaffiliated scholars who stay at home with our
young children, so this volume would not have been possible without the help
and support of our families and friends. Bates and Alexandra have made this
process more difficult than we ever imagined, but it would not be the same
without them. This book was mostly completed during nap times and with the
support of generous family members providing babysitting services, so we want
to offer our deepest appreciation for that.
Kavita’s dogs, however, have been excluded yet again from these acknowl-
edgments; like Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, they definitely know why.
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1 Introduction 1
Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte
Part I General Studies 7
2 Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality
on the Shakespearean Stage 9
Lori Leigh
3 Shakespeare’s Queens and Collective Forces: Facing
Aristocracy, Dealing with Crowds 29
Ugo Bruschi and Angela Reboli
Part II Queenship and Sovereignty 53
4 “I Trust I May Not Trust Thee”: Queens and Royal Women’s
Visions of the World in King John 55
Carole Levin
5 Cordelia, Foreign Queenship, and the Commonweal 69
Sandra Logan
6 “Tremble at Patience”: Constant Queens and Female
Solidarity in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter’s Tale 87
Miranda Fay Thomas
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Part III Queenship and Motherhood 105
7 “To Beare the Name of a Quéene”: Eleanor, Duchess
of Gloucester and Lady Macbeth: Queenship
and Motherhood 107
Sally Fisher
8 Womb Rhetoric: The Martial Maternity of Volumnia,
Tamora, and Elizabeth I 127
Lauren J. Rogener
9 “Good queen, my lord, good queen”: Royal Mothers
in Shakespeare’s Plays 145
Mary Villeponteaux
Part IV Queenship and Rhetoric 161
10 Margaret of Anjou and the Rhetoric of Sovereign Vengeance 163
Liberty S. Stanavage
11 “I Can No Longer Hold Me Patient!”: Margaret, Anger,
and Political Voice in Richard III 183
Bella Mirabella
12 Shakespeare’s Cleopatra as Meta-Theatrical Monarch 203
Shiladitya Sen
Part V Absent/Missing Queens 225
13 “Nothing Hath Begot My Something Grief”: Invisible
Queenship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy 227
Kavita Mudan Finn and Lea Luecking Frost
14 The Queen’s Two Bodies in The Winter’s Tale 251
Maggie Ellen Ray
15 The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn’s Queenship
in Henry VIII 271
Rebecca M. Quoss-Moore
CONTENT S ix
16 The Fortification and Containment of Elizabeth I’s Rhetoric
and Performance in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII 295
Nicole L. Lamont
Part VI S taging Queens and Contemporary Politics 311
17 The Princess’ Political Mission in Love’s Labour’s Lost:
The Embassy to Get Aquitaine and “All that Is” Navarre’s 313
Carolyn E. Brown
18 Katherine of Aragon, Protestant Purity, and the Anxieties
of Cultural Mixing in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII 331
Mira Assaf Kafantaris
19 “The Ambition in My Love”: The Theater of Courtly
Conduct in All’s Well that Ends Well 355
Susan Broomhall
Part VII Queenship and Intertextuality 373
20 As Wise as She Is Beautiful: Reconciling Shakespeare’s Fairy
Queen and Spenser’s Faerie Queene 375
Laura Schechter
21 The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(fé)rance in Love’s
Labour’s Lost 395
Aurélie Griffin
22 “A Gap in Nature”: Rewriting Cleopatra Through Antony
and Cleopatra’s Cosmology 413
Livia Sacchetti
23 En un infierno los dos: Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn
in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderón’s La
cisma de Inglaterra 431
Courtney Herber
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Part VIII Performing Queenship 453
24 Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare’s Adapted Heroine 455
Charlene V. Smith
25 The Bard, the Bride, and the Muse Bemused: Katherine
of Valois on Film in Shakespeare’s Henry V 475
William B. Robison
26 The “Squeaking Cleopatra Boy”: Performance
of the Queen’s Two Bodies on the Early Modern Stage 503
Amy Kenny
Afterword 519
Index 521
