Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of Memory

   • Estelle Paranque

   Pages 1-10

3. Reputation in Premodern Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: “Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity”

      • Carole Levin

      Pages 13-33

   3. Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor As Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story

      • Valerie Schutte

      Pages 35-50

   4. Virtue Betray’d: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century

      • Stephanie Russo

      Pages 51-71

   5. “Of Hopes Great as Himselfe”: Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI

      • Benjamin M. Guyer

      Pages 73-91

   6. Chivalry, Nobility, and Romance: Richard Hurd and the Ideal Elizabethan Past

      • Jurriaan van Santvoort

      Pages 93-111

4. Reinterpretation in Art

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Charles IX of France or the Anti-King: His Legacy in Plays and Chronicles in Seventeenth- and Long Eighteenth-Century France

      • Estelle Paranque

      Pages 115-132

   3. Remembering—and Forgetting—Regicide: The Commemoration of the 30th of January, 1649–1660

      • Imogen Peck

      Pages 133-153

   4. Henrietta Maria, “Queen of Tears”?: Picturing and Performing the Cavalier Queen

      • Sarah Betts

      Pages 155-177

   5. Romantic Recreations: Remembering Stuart Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Fancy Dress Entertainments

      • Benjamin L. Wild

      Pages 179-196

5. Reincarnation in Popular Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. She-Wolf or Feminist Heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in Modern History and Literature

      • Imogene Dudley

      Pages 199-218

   3. Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob

      • Kelly D. Peebles

      Pages 219-239

   4. Daenerys Targaryen as Queen Elizabeth I’s Spiritual Daughter

      • Estelle Paranque

      Pages 241-257

   5. 50 Shades of Elizabeth; or, “Doing History” in Pop Fiction

      • Elizabeth Ann Mackay

      Pages 259-278

   6. Conniving Queen, Frivolous Wife, or Romantic Heroine? The Afterlife of Queen Henrietta Maria

      • Susan Dunn-Hensley

      Pages 279-299

   7. “Let them eat cake, she says”: Assessing Marie-Antoinette’s Image

      • Courtney Herber

      Pages 301-322

This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

• French monarchy
• English monarchy
• Royal monuments and tombs
• monarchical memory
• cultural memory
• royal reputations
• Elizabeth I
• Catherine de Medici
• Francis II
• Mary Tudor
• Premodern Literature
• Boudicca
• Edward VI
• Jean de Prechac
• Richard Hurd
• Anne Boleyn
• Margaret of Anjou
• Marie Antoinette
• early modern monarchy

“This artfully assembled collection will hopefully spur more research and critical thinking into how culture affects our relationships to the past outside of historiographies.” (Anastasia Utke, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (2), 2020)

• New College of the Humanities, London, UK

  Estelle Paranque

Estelle Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities and an Honorary Research Fellow within the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

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