Plaintes full of dissimulation: the casket sonnets, female complaint and true crime

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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