Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-89355-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Queenship and Power |
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 187 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Schlagworte | Alethea, Countess of Arundel • Arbella Stuart • British Drama • British needlework • captivity • Christopher Marlowe • Early Modern Britain • Early Modern Drama • Elizabethan espionage • Elizabeth, Countess of Kent • Hardwick New Hall • Mary Cavendish • recipe books |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-89355-7 / 3031893557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-89355-1 / 9783031893551 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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