Chapter 2 Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 3 “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

Chapter 4 “The point of a very woman”: Gendering Destabilization in Edward Hall’s Union and Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles

Chapter 5 Queens in the Margins: Allegorizing Anxiety in A Mirror for Magistrates

Chapter 6 Performing Queenship in Legge’s Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy of Richard III , and Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV

Chapter 7 “A queen in jest”: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy

Chapter 8 “The fetters of her sex”: Voicing Queens in the Historical Poetry of Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel