- Title
- Plaintes full of dissimulation: the casket sonnets, female complaint and true crime
- Creator
- Smith, Rosalind
- Relation
- Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women's Writing p. 125-142
- Relation
- http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Expanding-the-Canon-of-Early-Modern-Women-s-Writing1-4438-2322-8.htm
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This essay considers the casket sonnet sequence attributed to Mary Queen of Scots as an example of complaint, and in particular popular complaint related to true crime, in order to better understand its perceived idiosyncrasies. Alternating between impassioned protestations of love and banal details of everyday life, and spoken in the voice of a mistress to her married lover, the sonnets combine sensational detail, emotional masochism and a jarring materiality in ways that seem, at first, startlingly unfamiliar.
- Subject
- casket sonnets; Mary Queen of Scots; true crime; emotional masochism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928726
- Identifier
- uon:10422
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443823227
- Language
- eng
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