Representing Subtextual Resistance: Undermining the Stereotype of Queen Elizabeth Woodville in Shakespeare’s Richard III

While William Shakespeare’s English history plays are crafted to interrogate the assumptions of prevailing Elizabethan historiography and its “providential narrative” (Mudan 244), his dramatic geni...

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The Explicator
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2026-10-28
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2026.2753682
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Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
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Representing Subtextual Resistance: Undermining the Stereotype of Queen Elizabeth Woodville in Shakespeare’s Richard III

Xuemei Zhang, Zehua Gao
The Explicator
Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
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Representing Subtextual Resistance: Undermining the Stereotype of Queen Elizabeth Woodville in Shakespeare’s Richard III

Xuemei Zhang, Zehua Gao
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While William Shakespeare’s English history plays are crafted to interrogate the assumptions of prevailing Elizabethan historiography and its “providential narrative” (Mudan 244), his dramatic geni...

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Chongqing Jiaotong University (CN)
Chongqing Municipal Education Commission
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