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Telltale women : chronicling gender in early modern historiography
- Title
- Telltale women : chronicling gender in early modern historiography / Allison Machlis Meyer.
- Author
- Meyer, Allison Machlis
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 335 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Uniform Title
- Women and gender in the early modern world.
- Subject
- 1066-1687
- Queens in literature
- Women in literature
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- Historical drama, English > History and criticism
- Queens > Great Britain > Historiography
- Women > Political activity > Historiography. > Great Britain
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
- Historical drama, English
- Historiography
- Literature
- Great Britain > In literature
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > 1066-1687
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3984
- ISBN
- 9781496208491
- 1496208498
- LCCN
- 2020023741
- 40030288475
- OCLC
- 1150959901
- Author
- Meyer, Allison Machlis, author.
- Title
- Telltale women : chronicling gender in early modern historiography / Allison Machlis Meyer.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Women and gender in the early modern worldWomen and gender in the early modern world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1066-1687
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030288475
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3984