The last Plantagenet consorts

By Kavita Mudan Finn

Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Politics and literature, Great britain, historiography, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Queens, great britain, Queens, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, Queens in literature, Great britain, biography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Historiography, History and criticism, English prose literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, English literature, Plantagenet, house of, HISTORY / Medieval, History, English Political poetry, Political poetry, history and criticism

Description: "Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrications themselves as narratives, and as reflections of questions and anxieties that haunted their writers. By focusing on the relationship between gender and genre and the way embedded literary narratives echo across texts as disparate as chronicles, parliamentary proceedings, diplomatic correspondence, ballads, poetry, and drama, this study reveals hitherto unexplored tensions within these texts, generated by embedded narratives and their implications"--