Download or read book Women and Culture At the Courts of the Stuart Queens written by Clare McManus and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Stuart queens create their own courts, and can these courts shed new light on women's poetry, drama and performance? This book investigates the literature, theater, patronage and commissioning of the courts of Anna of Denmark (1603-19) and Henrietta Maria (1625-42). Unearthing the neglected history of the Stuart queens, these essays look afresh at the early modern European female elite to create a new picture of femininity for students and scholars of early modern culture.