Acknowledgments
Introduction: Early Modern Royal Women and the Historical Record
1. A Very Prey to Time: Rewriting Elizabeths in Tudor Historiography and William Shakespeare’s Richard III
2. Your Hope Is Gone: Narrowing the Nation in The True Tragedy of Richard III and Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV
3. From a Noble Lady to an Unnatural Queen: Imagining Queen Isabel in Chronicle History and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II
4. So Masculine a Stile: Gender and Genre in Elizabeth Cary’s The History of Edward II
5. You Must Be King of Me: Queens and Rivals in Francis Bacon’s The History of King Henry VII and John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck
Coda: Double Drowned in the Gulf of Forgetfulness
Notes
Bibliography
Index