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Autore |
Hopkins Lisa |
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Titolo |
Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes : Cultural Legacies of Captivity / / by Lisa Hopkins |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2025.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 187 p.) |
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Collana |
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Queenship and Power, , 2730-9398 |
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Soggetti |
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Great Britain - History |
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Europe - History - 1492- |
Women - History |
History of Britain and Ireland |
Gender Studies |
History of Early Modern Europe |
Women's History / History of Gender |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ch 1: Introduction -- Ch 2: More Wall Than Glass -- Ch 3: Eating and Drinking -- Ch 4: In Sickness and in Health -- Ch 5: Scandals and Spies -- Ch 6: Captivity Replayed: Arbella Stuart -- Ch 7: Entrances, Exits and Sieges. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never visited Hardwick New Hall, the experience of keeping Mary captive affected the way that Bess conceived and furnished the house; second, that Mary’s insistence on having copious meals ceremonially served to her can be traced in the recipe and remedy books of two of Bess’s granddaughters; third, that Mary’s status as royal prisoner is echoed in the life of a third granddaughter, Lady Arbella Stuart; and fourth, that the necessity of defending Cavendish-Talbot residences from attack |
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informed the way that Bess’s son Charles Cavendish built Bolsover Castle and coloured the way that two of Bess’s great-granddaughters described their experiences during the English Civil War in a jointly authored play. Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is a co-editor of Journal of Marlowe Studies and of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and a series editor for Arden Critical Readers and Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Her most recent publications include Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain, co-edited with Bill Angus, and her edition of John Ford’s The Queen. She also writes about detective fiction; her book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. |
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