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Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton - Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library Katherine Eggert
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Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton - Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
Katherine Eggert
Showing Like a Queen argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage.
Publisher Marketing: For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In "Showing Like a Queen," Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new literary genres. Unlike other critics who have argued that a queen provoked only anxiety and defensiveness in her male subjects, Eggert demonstrates that even after her death Elizabeth I's forty-five-year reign enabled writers to entertain the fantasy of a counterpatriarchal realm. Eggert traces a literary history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in which the destabilizing anomaly of female rule enables Spenser to reshape the genre of epic romance and gives Shakespeare scope to create the ruptured dynastic epic of the history plays, the psychologized tragedy of Hamlet, and the feminized tragedies of "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Winter's Tale." Turning to the second half of the seventeenth century, Eggert reveals how even after more than sixty years of male governance, Milton bases his marital epic "Paradise Lost" upon the formulae of queenship. Review Citations:
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 329 (EAN 9780812235326, Hardcover)
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 189 (EAN 9780812235326, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio: Eggert, Katherine Eggert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 11, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812235326 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Genre | Cultural Region > British Isles |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 160 × 27 mm · 635 g |
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