Overview
- Present an innovative focus on foreign queens in Shakespeare
- Brings together questions of early modern and contemporary political theory, early modern queenship, and themes of identity and alterity, hospitality and exile
- Appeals to scholars of political theory, feminist theory, Shakespeare, and early modern English history
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“This book is true to its title, providing a detailed analytical study of four Shakespearian foreign queens. … The practical structure of the book also lends itself well to being read as an anthology. Each chapter contains a brief introduction to its subject, has distinct notes and its own bibliography.” (Alexandra Claridge, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 6 (1), 2019)
“Sandra Logan has succeeded in providing a new perspective through which to view issues of sovereignty, politics, and national identity in Shakespeare’s plays. Her focus on foreign queens draws attention to those liminal and contradictory figures who problematize prevailing ideas about monarchy by their status as both consort to the king and potential enemy to the state. This incisive and sophisticated study makes an original and significant contribution to the field.” (Dympna C. Callaghan, University Professor and William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA)
“Shakespeare's Foreign Queens is a study of royal sovereignty and the limits to which it is subject. Concentrating on four queens who are closely identified by their foreign origins—Katherine of Aragon, Tamora, Hermione and Margaret of Anjou—Sandra Logan brings into detailed focus the forms of citizenship and subjectivity in Shakespeare's plays and the legal and moral constraints to which royalauthority is, or should be, subject. The place of the alien within the commonweal helps define the rights and responsibilities of native citizens while, as the four varied chapters show, committed queenship is essential to the stability of the body politic. Historicism and feminism combine in this illuminating study.” (Richard Dutton, Professor of English, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, and Academy Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA)
“Political systems with the potential to prove destructive to the state is a topical issue that concerned many early modern political theorists. Vulnerable citizens faced alienation and exclusion when the monarchy lapsed into a tyrannical state. Foreign queens entering social and political systems as outsiders were especially vulnerable as their security depended upon the good will and protection of the monarchy. Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens provides four compelling case studies of Shakespeare’s queens to illustrate ways in which vulnerable queens exercised power to protect and preserve their status within the state. Their individual situations anticipate strikingly similar challenges and political issues that contemporary citizens and subjects face today, which makes this study especially relevant for those concerned with today’s political issues.” (Debra Barrett-Graves, Professor Emeritus, California State University, East Bay, USA)
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Book Title: Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens
Book Subtitle: Drama, Politics, and the Enemy Within
Authors: Sandra Logan
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53484-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53483-5Published: 15 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53484-2Published: 11 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 279
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Political History, Gender Studies