The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

1. Introduction
I. General Studies
2. Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality on the Shakespearean Stage
3. Shakespeare's Queens and Collective Forces: Facing Aristocracy, Dealing with Crowds.- II. Queenship & Sovereignty
4. "I trust I may not trust thee": Queens and Royal Women's Visions of the World in King John
5. Cordelia, Foreign Queenship, and the Commonweal
6. "Tremble at patience": Constant Queens and Female Solidarity in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter's Tale .- III. Queenship & Motherhood
7. "...to beare the name of a queene": Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, and Lady Macbeth: Queens and Motherhood
8. Womb Rhetoric: The Martial Maternity of Volumnia, Tamora, and Elizabeth I
9. "Good queen, my lord, good queen": Royal Mothers in Shakespeare's Plays
IV. Queenship & Rhetoric
10. Margaret of Anjou and the Rhetoric of Sovereign Violence
11. "I can no longer hold me patient!": Margaret, Anger, and Political Voice in Richard III
12. Shakespeare's Cleopatra as Metatheatrical Monarch
V. Absent/Missing Queens
13. "Nothing Hath Begot My Something Grief": Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
14. The Queen's Two Bodies in The Winter's Tale
15. The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn's Queenship in Henry VIII, or All is True
16. The Fortification and Containment of Queen Elizabeth I's Rhetoric and Performance in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII
VI. Staging Queens & Contemporary Politics
17. The Princess' Political Mission in Love Labour's Lost: The Embassy to get Aquitaine and "all that is" Navarre's
18. Katherine of Aragon, Protestant Purity, and the Anxieties of Cultural Mixing in Shakespeare and Fletcher's King Henry VIII
19. "The Ambition in my Love": The Theatre of Courtly Conduct in All's Well That Ends Well
VII. Queenship & Intertextuality
20. As Wise as She is Beautiful: Reconciling Shakespeare's Fairy Queen and Spenser's Faerie Queene
21. The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(fé)rance in Love's Labour's Lost
22. "A gap in nature": Re-writing Cleopatra Through Antony and Cleopatra 's Cosmology
23. En un infierno los dos : Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare & Fletcher's Henry VIII and Calderón's La cisma de Inglaterra
VIII. Performing Queenship
24. Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's Adapted Heroine
25. The Bard, the Bride, and the Muse Bemused: Katherine de Valois on Film in Shakespeare's Henry V
26. The "squeaking Cleopatra boy": Performance of the Queen's Two Bodies on the Early Modern Stage