The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

The 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 http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14523 Kavita Mudan Finn • Valerie Schutte Editors The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens Editors Kavita Mudan Finn Valerie Schutte Independent Scholar Independent Scholar Manchester, NH, USA Beaver Falls, PA, USA Queenship and Power ISBN 978-3-319-74517-6 ISBN 978-3-319-74518-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74518-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018936615 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 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 acknowledgments; like Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, they definitely know why. v CONTENTS 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 vii viii CONTENTS 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 CONTENTS 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 Staging 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 x CONTENTS 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 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Western Australia. She is author or co-author of eight monographs and ten edited volumes exploring women and gender, power, and, most recentl,y emotions and material culture, focusing particularly on early modern France and the Low Countries. She was a Foundation Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and now holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, researching emotions and power in the correspondence of Catherine de’ Medici. Carolyn E. Brown is a Professor at the University of San Francisco where she teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance/Early Modern literature. Her scholarship is feminist, historicist, and psychoanalytic. Her publications on Shakespeare appear in the following journals—Studies in Philology; Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; Studies in English Literature; Texas Studies in Literature and Language; Shakespeare Studies; Literature and Psychology; American Imago; and English Literary Renaissance—and several anthologies. She is author of the book Shakespeare and Psychoanalytic Theory (2015). Ugo Bruschi is Assistant Professor in Medieval and Modern Legal History at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is a member of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions and of the Royal Historical Society. Lately, his research has focused on the English political and constitutional system in the early modern period. He has presented or published many papers on this topic; his book, Rivoluzioni silen- ziose. L’evoluzione costituzionale della Gran Bretagna tra la Glorious Revolution e il Great Reform Act (2014), traces the evolution of the British constitution in the long eighteenth century. He is currently working on a book about the rise of the prime minister and of the cabinet system in the Georgian era. Kavita Mudan Finn is an independent scholar who has taught medieval and early modern literature at Georgetown University, George Washington xi xii Notes on Contributors University, Simmons College, Southern New Hampshire University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2010 and published her first book,The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography 1440–1627, in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Shakespeare (the journal of the British Shakespeare Association), Viator, Critical Survey, The Journal of Fandom Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and she has edited several collections, most recently Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones (2017).

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