The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England

Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
Part 1. The Politics of Women’s “Domestic” Alliances
1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern England
Bernard Capp
2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’s The Two Angry Women of Abington
Ronda Arab
3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women 
Megan Inbody
4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’s Tragedy and The Tamer Tamed
Niamh J. O’Leary
5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’s Letters 
Elizabeth Hodgson
Part 2. Women’s Alliances and the Politics of the Court
6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’ Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean Stage
Roberta Barker
8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’s Tale
Alicia Tomasian
9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance 
Christina Luckyj
Part 3. The Politics of Female Kinship
10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
Steven Urkowitz
11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record 
Jessica L. Malay
12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary / Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters 
Jennifer Higginbotham
13. Afterword
Susan Frye and Karen Robertson
Contributors 
Index