Download or read book The Queen's Mercy written by M. Villeponteaux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne.