Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

by Katherine Eggert

For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority.

In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812235320
• ISBN13: 9780812235326
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"