The 'Quenis awne hand': the literary agency of Mary Queen of Scots in shaping her own public image, 1567-1587

我的博士研究将考察苏格兰玛丽女王在1567-1587年的诗歌和书信中的自我刻画。然后，它将把这种自我塑造的形象与同一时期英国其他人描绘的玛丽形象进行对比。这一分析将用她自己的话重新审视玛丽安的叙事，并首次揭示她持久的公众形象在多大程度上是基于她作为作家的代理机构，以及有多少外部投射到她身上。

My doctoral research will examine the self-portrayal of Mary Queen of Scots in her poetry and correspondence, 1567-1587. It will then contrast this self-fashioning against the images of Mary portrayed by others in Britain in the same period. This analysis will recentre the Marian narrative in her own words and reveal, for the first time, the extent to which her enduring public image is based on her own agency as an author, and how much was outwardly projected onto her.