Charting developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, John Staines here explores the political consequences of the emotions generated by the image of Mary Queen of Scots, tragic woman and queen. This study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican.
Charting developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, John Staines here explores the political consequences of the emotions generated by the image of Mary Queen of Scots, tragic woman and queen. This study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican.
John D. Staines is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York.
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Contents: Introduction: Mary's tragedy and public rhetoric in an age of reform and revolution Character, passion and political rhetoric in Buchanan's Tragic History of the Queen of Scots Mary's passions made public: other early versions of her tragic fall The tragedy at Fotheringhay Guile and public representation: Mary's tragedy in Book V of The Faerie Queene 'Out of this lamentable fortune': Mary's tragedy and the royal succession Charles's grandmother and the rhetoric of revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: Mary's tragedy and public rhetoric in an age of reform and revolution Character, passion and political rhetoric in Buchanan's Tragic History of the Queen of Scots Mary's passions made public: other early versions of her tragic fall The tragedy at Fotheringhay Guile and public representation: Mary's tragedy in Book V of The Faerie Queene 'Out of this lamentable fortune': Mary's tragedy and the royal succession Charles's grandmother and the rhetoric of revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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