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Allison Machlis Meyer's thoughtful and compelling book has in effect given the field two studies it needs badly: an analysis of women's political roles in early modern narrative historiography and a new examination of how these roles are transformed--and limited--in dramatic representation. --Dan Breen, associate professor of English at Ithaca College --Dan Breen Meyer's historically alert and rhetorically savvy argument introduces a novel approach to source studies. Lucidly and engagingly she attends to long-term developments of the early modern chronicle and historical drama genres while richly delineating the contexts of the early authors' political and personal allegiances and rivalries. Students of gender and book history alike will benefit from this insightful study of the shaping of cultural attitudes toward the political agency of royal women and their use for the consolidation of a citizen-centered English nation. --Kirilka Stavreva, professor of English at Cornell College and author of Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England --Kirilka Stavreva

Allison Machlis Meyer's thoughtful and compelling book has in effect given the field two studies it needs badly: an analysis of women's political roles in early modern narrative historiography and a new examination of how these roles are transformed-and limited-in dramatic representation. -Dan Breen, associate professor of English at Ithaca College Meyer's historically alert and rhetorically savvy argument introduces a novel approach to source studies. Lucidly and engagingly she attends to long-term developments of the early modern chronicle and historical drama genres while richly delineating the contexts of the early authors' political and personal allegiances and rivalries. Students of gender and book history alike will benefit from this insightful study of the shaping of cultural attitudes toward the political agency of royal women and their use for the consolidation of a citizen-centered English nation. -Kirilka Stavreva, professor of English at Cornell College and author of Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England

Allison Machlis Meyer's thoughtful and compelling book has in effect given the field two studies it needs badly: an analysis of women's political roles in early modern narrative historiography and a new examination of how these roles are transformed--and limited--in dramatic representation. --Dan Breen, associate professor of English at Ithaca College --Dan Breen Meyer's historically alert and rhetorically savvy argument introduces a novel approach to source studies. Lucidly and engagingly she attends to long-term developments of the early modern chronicle and historical drama genres while richly delineating the contexts of the early authors' political and personal allegiances and rivalries. Students of gender and book history alike will benefit from this insightful study of the shaping of cultural attitudes toward the political agency of royal women and their use for the consolidation of a citizen-centered English nation. --Kirilka Stavreva, professor of English at Cornell College and author of Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England --Kirilka Stavreva

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Allison Machlis Meyer is an associate professor of English at Seattle University.          

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