Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Martin, French Connections in the English Renaissance SP - 27-48 ID - bbbc1970 T1 - "Isabelle de France, Child Bride" AU - Williams, Deanne PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Reads Queen Isabel in Richard II not as a composite of Richard's wives, but historically as a little girl. Contents that reading Isabelle de France as a child "instensif[ies] our sympathy for her plight" and "recognize[s] her status as a compelling French counterpoint to the play's overarching English nationalist teleology." ER -