{"product_id":"hopkins-lisa-bess-of-hardwick-mary-queen-of-scots-and-the-cavendishes-9783031893551","title":"Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes","description":"This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never visited Hardwick New Hall, the experience of keeping Mary captive affected the way that Bess conceived and furnished the house; second, that Mary’s insistence on having copious meals ceremonially served to her can be traced in the recipe and remedy books of two of Bess’s granddaughters; third, that Mary’s status as royal prisoner is echoed in the life of a third granddaughter, Lady Arbella Stuart; and fourth, that the necessity of defending Cavendish-Talbot residences from attack informed the way that Bess’s son Charles Cavendish built Bolsover Castle and coloured the way that two of Bess’s great-granddaughters described their experiences during the English Civil War in a jointly authored play. Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is a co-editor of Journal of Marlowe Studies and of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and a series editor for Arden Critical Readers and Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Her most recent publications include Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain, co-edited with Bill Angus, and her edition of John Ford’s The Queen. She also writes about detective fiction; her book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53692809511254,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783031893551_1_4de5e6be-aa9e-463e-a54a-c7ae70c87400.jpg?v=1781751300","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/hopkins-lisa-bess-of-hardwick-mary-queen-of-scots-and-the-cavendishes-9783031893551","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}