Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Texts and Editions ix
4. 1. Forms of Queenship: Female Rule and Literary Structure in the English Renaissance 1
5. 2. Genre and the Repeal of Queenship in Spenser's Faerie Queene 22
6. 3. Leading Ladies: Feminine Authority and Theatrical Effect in Shakespeare's History Plays 51
7. 4. Exclaiming Against Their Own Succession: Queenship, Genre, and What Happens in Hamlet 100
8. 5. The Late Queen of Famous Memory: Nostalgic Form in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale 131
9. 6. Milton's Queenly Paradise 169
10. Afterword: Queenship and New Feminine Genres 201
11. Notes 207
12. Bibliography 255
13. Acknowledgments 279
14. Index 281