Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

by Katherine Eggert

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812235320

ISBN13:9780812235326

Release Date:December 2000

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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