Chapter 1 “Sad Stories of the Death of Queens”
Elizabethan Beginnings and Endings
Abstract
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics. The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections across literary and historical texts, a sense of discovery that this collection’s contributors learned from its dedicatee, John Watkins, a major literary and cultural historian whose work moves effortlessly across geographical, temporal, and political borders. His work and his personality embody the spirit of creative improvisation that brings new ideas together, allowing texts and figures of history to haunt later eras and encourage new questions. This volume is aimed at scholars and students alike who wish to explore early modern culture and its reverberations in ways that engage with a world outside the grand narratives and centralized institutions of power, a world that is more provisional, less scripted, and more improvisational. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license.
Keywords
Queen Elizabeth’s Seneca,Elizabeth I,Queenship,Wolsey,Henry VIII,Shakespeare,Cranmer,Mothers,Daughters,Violence,Medieval Law,Pregnancies,Race,England,Europe,America,Habsburg,Italian Wars,Women,Pirates,Mediterranean,Russia,Queen Elizabeth's SenecaDOI
10.4324/9781032698304-2ISBN
9781032698281, 9781032698298, 9781032698304Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2024Grantor
Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
History
European history
General and world history