Introduction : early modern royal women and the historical record -- "A very prey to time" : rewriting Elizabeths in Tudor historiography and William Shakespeare's Richard III -- "Your hope is gone" : narrowing the nation in the true tragedy of Richard III and Thomas Heywood's Edward IV -- From a "noble lady" to an "unnatural queen" : imagining Queen Isabel in chronicle history and Christopher Marlowe's Edward II -- "So masculine a stile" : gender and genre in Elizabeth Cary's The history of Edward II -- "You must be king of me" : queens and rivals in Francis Bacon's The history of King Henry VII and John Ford's Perkin Warbeck.
Summary:
"In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest women's voices with authority, while dramatists reshape this source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemn queenship and female power"-- Provided by publisher.
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