An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century  'By Meane of a Woman': Changing the Subject in Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More's History of King Richard the Third  'The point of a very woman': Gendering Destabilization in Edward Hall's Union and Raphael Holinshed's Chronicle  Queens in the Margins: Allegorizing Anxiety in A Mirror for Magistrates  Performing Queenship in Legge's Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy of Richard III, and Heywood's Edward IV  'A Queen in Jest': Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy 'The Fetters of Her Sex': Voicing Queens in the Historical Poetry of Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel