Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens

ALEXANDRA G. BENNETT Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, usaKAREN BRITLAND Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UKJAMES KNOWLES Reader in English at the University of Stirling, UKREBECCA LEMON Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California, USASARAH POYNTING Research Fellow in History and English at Keele University, UKSOPHIE TOMLINSON Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland, New ZealandSUZANNE TRILL Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UKMARA R. WADE Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Literature, University of Illinois, USASUSAN WISEMAN Reader in Early Modern Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

• 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 aroundimportant interdisciplinary research questions, and carrying forward the studyof early modern women's cultural participation in severalsignificant directions.' - Professor Kate Chedgzoy, Professor of Renaissance Literature, University of Newcastle upon Tyne