Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens

CLARE McMANUS is Lecturer in English at Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619) (Manchester University Press, 2002) and has also written on the cultural intersections of seventeenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

• List of Figures List of Genealogical Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Queen's Court; C.McManus PART I: FEMALE PERFORMANCE, CULTURAL AGENCY AND QUEENSHIP AT THE JACOBEAN COURTS 'To Enlight the Darksome Night, Pale Cinthia doth Arise': Anna of Denmark, Elizabeth I and the Images of Royalty; J.Knowles The Queen's Courts: Anna of Denmark and her Royal Sisters - Cultural Agency at Four North European Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; M.R.Wade Memorialising Anna of Denmark's Court: Cupid's Banishment at Greenwich Palace; C.McManus PART II: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN THE QUEEN'S COURT Reflected Desire: The Erotics of the Gaze in Aemilia Lanyer's

'This is... a splendid collection, coherent yet wide-ranging, focused around important interdisciplinary research questions, and carrying forward the study of early modern women's cultural participation in several significant directions.' - Professor Kate Chedgzoy, Professor of Renaissance Literature, University of Newcastle upon Tyne