Overview: Collects cutting-edge scholarship on early modern queenship.Features leading scholars in the field of queenship studies.Includes a wide range of angles and approaches to the study of queens in the earThe essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation o
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