This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

Autorentext
Estelle Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities and an Honorary Research Fellow within the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 15581588 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Inhalt

1. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of Memory

I. Reputation in Premodern Literature

2. Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: "Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity"

3. Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story

4. Virtue Betray'd: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century

5. Of Hopes Great as Himselfe: Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI

6. Chivalry, Nobility and Romance: Richard Hurd and the Ideal Elizabethan Past

II. Reinterpretation in Art

7. Charles IX of France or the Anti-King: His Legacy in Plays and Chronicles in Seventeenth- and Long Eighteenth-Century France

8. Rememberingand ForgettingRegicide: The Commemoration of the 30th January 16491660

9. Henrietta Maria, Queen of Tears? Picturing and Performing the Cavalier Queen

10. Romantic Recreations: Remembering Stuart Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Fancy Dress Entertainments

III. Reincarnation in Popular Culture

11. She-Wolf or Feminist Heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in Modern History and Literature

12. Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob

13. Daenerys Targaryen as Elizabeth I's Spiritual Daughter

14. 50 Shades of Elizabeth or Doing History in Pop Fiction

15. Conniving Queen, Frivolous Wife, or Romantic Heroine? The Afterlife of Queen Henrietta Maria

16. 'Let them eat cake, she says': Assessing Marie-Antoinette's Image