Dear All (and please excuse the cross-listing),
I am pleased to announce the publication of _Reading Monarchs Writing: The
Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I_, edited by
Peter C. Herman (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, volume 234),
$40.00. This anthology is the first book to examine the verse produced by
Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and the essays demonstrate how these monarchs
used verse to reflect on the nature of monarchy and to assert royal policy.
The contributors are Ray Siemons, Lisa Hopkins, Jennifer Summit, Constance
Jordan, Leah S. Marcus, Sandra Bell, Robert Appelbaum, and myself. As
almost all of this poetry is difficult to find, the volume includes a
selection of their verse in modernized and newly edited texts, including
the first reliable edition and translation of Mary Stuart's love sonnets. I
have pasted below the table of contents as well as a links to amazon.com
and the MRTS online catalogue.
Peter C. Herman
Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart,
Elizabeth I, and James VI/I
Edited by Peter C. Herman
San Diego State University
Part I
1.) Reading Monarchs Writing: Introduction
Peter C. Herman and Ray G. Siemens Malaspina University-College)
2.) Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics
Peter C. Herman and R. G. Siemens
3.) Writing to Control: The Verse of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
4.) "mes subjectz, mon ame assubjectie": The Problematic (of)
Subjectivity in Mary
Stuart's Sonnets
Peter C. Herman
5.) "The Arte of a Ladies Penne": Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship
Jennifer Summit (Stanford University)
6.) States of Blindness: Doubt, Justice, and Constancy in
Elizabeth I's "Avec
l'aveugler si estrange
Constance Jordan (Claremont Graduate School)
7.) Queen Elizabeth I as Public and Private Poet: Notes toward a New
Edition
Leah S. Marcus (Vanderbilt University)
8.) Kingcraft and Poetry: James VI's Cultural Policy
Sandra J. Bell (University of New Brunswick at Saint John)
9.) War and Peace in James VI/I's Lepanto
Robert Appelbaum (University of San Diego)
Part IISelected Poems of Tudor/Stuart Monarchs
Henry VIII "Pastime with Good Company" (The King's Ballad)
"Alas, What shall I do For Love?"
"Oh, My Heart"
"The Time of Youth is to be Spent"
"Alac, Alac! What Shall I do?"
"Hey Nonny, Nonny Nonny No!"
"Green Grows the Holly"
"Who so that will All Feats Obtain"
"If Love Now Reigned as it Has Been"
"Whereto Should I Express"
"Though Men do Call it Dotage"
"Departure is My Chief Pain"
"Without Discord"
"Though Some Say that Youth Rules Me"
"Who So that Will for Grace Sue"
"Lusty Youth Should Us Ensue!"
Mary Stuart Quatrain written in the Mass Book
"Celui vraiment n' point de courtoisie"
"Les Dieux, les cieux"
Sonnets to Bothwell
The Anglo-Scots Translation of Mary Stuart's "Certaine French
Sonnets" (The
Sonnets to Bothwell)
Sonnet to Elizabeth
Elizabeth I-- Written on a window frame, "O Fortune, Thy Wresting,
Wavering State"
Written with a Diamond, "Much Suspected by Me"
"On Monsieur's Departure"
Verse Exchange Between Ralegh and Elizabeth, Ralegh to Elizabeth,
"Fortune
Hath Taken Thee from me"; Elizabeth to Ralegh, "Ah, Silly Pug"
Variants of "The Doubt of Future Foes"
The Hatfield French Verses
James VI/I-- "The Twelve Sonnets of Invocations to the Gods"
"A Paraphrasticall Translation out of the Poete Lucan"
Preface to the 1603 Edition of The Lepanto
The Lepanto
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0866982760/qid%3D1024607884/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-4534517-2495312
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/mrts/catalo.html
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