1st Edition
Creatively Expanding the Premodern Historical and Literary Afterlives
Introduction
Carole Levin
Part 1: Classical and Biblical
1. Contemporary Visions of Classical Greek Women
Marguerite A. Tassi
2. Retellings of Greek Mythology
Carole Levin
3. Biblical Retellings
Carole Levin
Part 2: Powerful Medieval Women
4. Catherine of Siena
Christine Stewart-Nuñez, with an Introduction by Carole Levin
5. Magic and Medieval Women
Carole Levin
Part 3: Sixteenth Century English Queens
6. Katherine of Aragon
Christine Stewart-Nuñez, with an Introduction by Carole Levin
7. Queen Elizabeth I ’s Courtships
Carole Levin
Part 4: Shakespeare
8. Shakespearean Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry
Marguerite A. Tassi
9. Shakespearean Rags
Julia Griffin
10. Shakespearean Women
Carole Levin
Part 5: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Writers
11. Spenser, Donne and Milton
Julia Griffin
Biography
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She is the author or editor of twenty books, most recently The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society (2022) and the play Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words. She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Warwick.
Marguerite A. Tassi is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama (2005) and Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics (2012) and the editor of Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare (2018).
Christine Stewart-Nuñez is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place (2022), The Poet & The Architect (2021), and four other books of poetry. She is also the co-editor of two books, including Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens (2015). From 2019 to 2021, she served as South Dakota’s poet laureate.
Julia Griffin was, until 2025, Professor in the English Department at Georgia Southern University, specializing in Renaissance English literature. In 2011, she published the first edition of the complete works of Anne Steele. She has also published poetry in a number of journals, including Classical Outlook, Light, and The Ekphrastic Review.
