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211 Pages·2012·4.974 MB·English
by  Sid Ray
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QUEENSHIP AND POWER Series Editors: Carole Levin and Charles Beem This series brings together monographs and edited volumes from scholars specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents—pursued 04 in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. In 07- 3- addition to works describing European queenship, it also includes books on queenship 1 0 2 aIssl aitm aipcp ceiavrileidz aitnio ontsh. er parts of the world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and ect - n n o C e v a Editorial Board gr al P Linda Darling, University of Arizona (Ottoman Empire) y - e Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University (Spain) dn y Dorothy Ko, Barnard College (China) of S Nancy Kollman, Stanford University (Russia) y John Thornton, Boston University (Africa and the Atlantic World) ersit John Watkins (France and Italy) niv U o Published by Palgrave Macmillan ed t s n e T Byh eC Lhiaonrleesss RBoeaermed : The Problems of Female Rule in English History m - lic o c Elizabeth of York ect. n By Arlene Naylor Okerlund on c e v a Learned Queen: The Imperial Image of Elizabeth I gr By Linda Shenk pal w. w High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations m w Edited by Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney al fro The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe eri at By Sharon L. 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Warnicke A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I By Rayne Allinson Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England By Lisa Benz St. John Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen By Sarah Duncan The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440–1627 By Kavita Mudan Finn Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship By Jo Eldridge Carney Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare By Sid Ray Queenship in Medieval Europe (forthcoming) By Theresa Earenfight Queenship in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming) By Charles Beem M Q OTHER UEENS AND P S RINCELY ONS ROGUE MADONNAS IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE Sid Ray MOTHER QUEENS AND PRINCELY SONS Copyright © Sid Ray, 2012. All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–00379–9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ray, Sid, 1966– Mother Queens and princely sons : rogue Madonnas in the age of Shakespeare / Sid Ray. pages cm.—(Queenship and power) ISBN 978–1–137–00379–9 (alk. paper) 1. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint—Motherhood. 2. England—Kings and rulers. 3. Kings and rulers—Religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Queens—England. 5. English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600—History and criticism. 6. Mothers and sons in literature. 7. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Characters—Mothers. 8. Webster, John, 1580?–1625? Duchess of Malfi. I. Title. BT605.3R388 2012 306.874(cid:2)3—dc23 2012034222 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. For Isabella Ray Kearns This page intentionally left blank C ONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Madonna, Child, and Early Modern Accolated Bodies 1 1 “Above God Himselfe”: The Rogue Madonna and Her Daughter Queens 17 2 “A Joyful Mother of Two Goodly Sons”: The Madonna of Ephesus and Her Disruptive Twins 45 3 “So Troubled with the Mother”: The Politics of Pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi 67 4 “Partner[s] of Greatness”: The Madonnas of M acbeth 81 5 “A Shall Not Tread on Me”: Motherless Sons from Titus Andronicus to The Winter’s Tale 105 Afterword 131 Notes 135 Bibliography 171 Index 185 This page intentionally left blank I LLUSTRATIONS Cover Image: Holy Family , attributed to Giulio Romano (1492–1546) 0.1 Reverse of gold eight-drachma piece of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BCE), depicting his deified parents Ptolemy I and Berenice 4 1.1 The Beautiful-eyed Madonna (oil on panel), Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) 25 2.1 Artemis of Ephesus (bronze and alabaster), Roman (second century CE) 48 3.1 Madonna del Parto (fresco), Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300–66) 70 4.1 Luther as the Devil’s Bagpipes (color woodcut, c. 1535) Eduard Schoen 91 5.1 Madonna and Child (panel, c. 1530–40) Giulio Romano 126 5.2 Olympia is seduced by Jupiter whose thunderbolt is seized by an eagle who drills the eye of the jealous king of Macedonia (fresco, 1528), Giulio Romano 127

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