Margaret of Anjou

Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England

by Helen E. Maurer

The Bodydell Press, 2003 [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0851159273

Near Fine Condition, book in fine condition, dustjacket has watermark stain on underside, minor edge and shelf wear to dustjacket.

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told - a 'she-wolf' whose vindictive spirit fueled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses.  In Shakespeare's rendering she literally becomes a bitch, an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood.'