“High and Mighty Queens” of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Transformation or Continuity? Sixteenth-Century Education and the Legacy of Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives

Chapter 3 Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England

Chapter 4 Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Policy: the Circle of Anna of Denmark and the Beginning of the English Empire, 1614–18

Chapter 5 Negotiating Exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Court of Charles I

Chapter 6 “And a Queen of England, Too”: The ‘Englishing’ of Catherine of Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History

Chapter 7 Whore Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State

Chapter 8 “Honoured Hippolyta, Most Dreaded Amazonian”: The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher

Chapter 9 “No head eminent above the rest”: Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest

Chapter 10 “There’s magic in thy majesty”: Queenship and Witch-Speak in Jacobean Shakespeare

Chapter 11 The Taming of the Queen: Foxe’s Katherine and Shakespeare’s Kate

Chapter 12 Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth

Chapter 13 Re-imagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon among the Victorians

Chapter 14 The Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot

Chapter 15 Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film