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This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them.Boudicca. T

Title	:	Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens (Queenship and Power)
Author	:	Palgrave Macmillan
Rating	:	4.77 (550 Votes)
Asin	:	1137534893
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	299Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-12-1
Language	:	English

This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them.

Boudicca. This may appear to be a compelling narrative, but throughout, Nichols' argument suffers from too facile connections between historical figures and the play's plots, with little attentiveness to the local and theatre history. The cluster looks promising.10. The range of the collection, from scholarly essays and creative work on mythological queens, to 18th-century reconstructions of the encounter of the 'Pirate Queen' Grace O'Maley with Elizabeth I is impressive, while the focus on women at the pinnacle of political power both unifies the book and is bound to entice readers. The argument that the Cleopatra plays were barely veiled allegories of Elizabeth strikes me as downright naive. Marguerite Tassi unpacks the emotionally charged representation of Hecuba in the rendition of her tale in Golding's 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Brandie Siegfried's proposed essay on a 1793 engraving of an undocumented encounter be

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She co-edits the Queenship and Power series with Charles Beem.Christine Stewart-Nuñez is Associate Professor of English at South Dakota State University, USA and author of five poetry collections: Snow, Salt, Honey (2012); Keeping Them Alive (2011); Postcard on Parchment (2008); Unbound Branded (2006); and The Love of Unreal Things (2005).

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Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, USA. Her previous books include Dreaming the English Renaissance (2008) and The Reign of Elizabeth I (2003)