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Hecuba -- Tears for Hecuba : Empathy and Maternal Bereavement in Golding's Translation of Ovid Metamorphosis / Marguerite Tassi -- Hecuba's Dream / Marguerite Tassi -- Hecuba Laments / Darla Biefieldt -- Cleopatra -- "I was not I?" : tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama / Andrea Nichols -- Grand Unified Theory / Erika Stevens -- Boudicca -- How the Iceni Became British : Holinshed's Boudicca and the Rhetoric of Naturalization / Katarzyna Lecky -- The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste / M. Wells -- The Heart and Stomach of a Queen / Carole Levin -- The Empress Matilda -- Charles Beem, The Virtuous Virago : The Empress Matilda and the Politics of Womanhood in Twelfth Century England -- Dennis Henry, Maud and Ellie Play Chess Queen -- Margaret -- Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles : She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit / Carole Levin -- After Lives / Regina Buccola -- Catherine of Aragon -- Regarding Catherine of Aragon / Theresa Earenfight -- Of Books and Bijou : The Poet's Letter to Katherine / Christine Stewart-Nunez -- Granadas : Katherine to Her Daughter / Christine Stewart-Nunez -- Mary Stuart -- The Widow of Scots : Examining Mary Stuart in her Widowhoods / Alyson Alvarez -- Mary Queen of Scots in Hell / Mary Ruth Donnelly -- Elizabeth I -- The Virgin Queen as Nurse of the Church : Manipulating an Image of Elizabeth I in Court Sermons / Paul Strauss -- Questionable Contexts : A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth's Teeth / Sonja Drimmer -- For My Eyes, Part 1 / Amber Harris Leichner -- For My Eyes, Part 2 / Amber Harris Leichner -- The First of That Name / Regina Buccola -- Grace O'Malley -- Notorious Irish Queen : Grainne Ni Mhaille, Graven Memory, and the Making of Legend / Brandie Siegfried -- Grace : O'Malley meets the English Queen / Heidi Czerwiec -- Gifts and Poison, Whispers and Letters -- More Than a Wife and Mother : Jane Dudley, the Woman Who Bequeathed a Parrot and Served Five Queens / Catherine Medici -- Poisoning Queens in Early Modern England / Jo Carney -- On the Revolutions of Space / Megan Gannon -- The Kingdom if I can / Grace Bauer. "Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Queens include such famous and fascinating women as Hecuba, Cleopatra, the Empress Matilda, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth I, and Grace O'Malley, a pirate queen. One can find, for example, an essay on Mary Stuart's responses to her widowhoods paired with Mary's lamentation from the afterlife. After reading the analysis of the Empress Matilda's efforts to gain the throne of England, one can also see the character of the much older Matilda playing chess with her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine"--
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