Pragmatics of Queenship in Shakespeare's Drama

This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare’s political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III) – Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville – and so by detecting the nature and evolution of their agency. The study is collocated in t...