Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes : Cultural Legacies of Captivity / / by Lisa Hopkins

• Autore: Hopkins Lisa
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2025.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 187 p.)
• Disciplina: 941
• Soggetto topico: Great Britain - History; Sex; Europe - History - 1492-; Women - History; History of Britain and Ireland; Gender Studies; History of Early Modern Europe; Women's History / History of Gender
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes
• ISBN: 3-031-89356-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911007355003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Queenship and Power, . 2730-9398