A01=Maria M. Scott
Alban Shore
Author_Maria M. Scott
Bosworth Field
Category=DSM
Churchyard's Poem
Churchyard’s Poem
cultural anxieties about sexuality
death
early modern literature
edward
Edward IV
edwards
elizabeth
Elizabeth Woodville
English monarchy history
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gender and power
Gloucester
Goldsmith
goldsmiths
Harlot
Heywood's Play
Heywood’s Play
historical narrative analysis
Jane Shore
Josephine Tey
King Edward IV
King Richard III
Lace Maker
literary representations of women
Master Shore
mistress
Mistress Shore
Nicholas Barker
Popular Culture Manifestations
Richard III
Rowe's Play
Rowe’s Play
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III
shores
Shores Wife
Violates
wife
william
William Shore
Wofull Lamentation
women in politics
woodville
Product details
- ISBN 9781138622494
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore analyzes the representation of the mistress of Edward IV of England, known to us as 'Jane' Shore (c. 1445-c. 1527). The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she left her merchant husband to become the king's concubine. After Edward's death, his brother, later Richard III, charged her with witchcraft and harlotry, prompting Thomas More to include her in his exposition of Richard's perfidies in The History of Richard III. Since then, Jane Shore has been a frequent subject of, among others, poets (Thomas Churchyard and Thomas Deloney), playwrights (Shakespeare and Nicholas Rowe), and novelists (Guy Padget and Jean Plaidy). Scott examines the anxiety in Anglo-American culture generated when sex and politics intersect, using the case of 'Jane' Shore to show how history is compromised and complicated by context. In doing so, she reveals how women continue to be deployed as symbols rather than as actors on the larger stage of the drama that is politics.
