The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690 : Rhetoric, Passions and Political Literature

by JohnD.Staines (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $160.09

  Argues that sixteenth and seventeenth - century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall.