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Failed Mothers, Monster Sons. Reading Shakespeare’S Richard Iii as a Fairy Tale

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Percec D.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2014

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vol. 11

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issue 1

103-111

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The paper looks at Shakespeare’s historical play Richard III and its fairy tale-like character given by the configuration of the main character as an arch-villain and the presence of motifs and patterns typically associated with the fairy tale genre. More specifically, it considers the mother-son relationship between the Duchess of York and Richard in the light of the motif of monstrous birth. It is not a coincidence that the emergence of such motifs coincides with the historical contexts of the early modern period. Reading Richard III in this key is related to the revisionist approach to chronicle plays.

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Queenship, Power, and Elizabethan Mentalities in Shakespeare’s Histories

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Percec D.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2013

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vol. 10

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issue 1

253-262

EN

The paper looks at the way in which the notion of queenship - in connection or in contrast with that of kingship and royalty in general - is reflected in Shakespeare’s historical tetralogies and in Henry VIII. It is argued that all royal figures, male and female, featured in these plays, are presented by Shakespeare in accordance not only with Tudor historiography, but also with Elizabeth I’s own strategies of self-representation. Thus, the major notions to be looked into are virtue, legitimacy, agency, as well as, more generally, early modern religious and political issues concerning gender relations

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Oczekiwanie na dziecko w rodzinie królewskiej w Polsce w XV i XVI wieku

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Januszek-Sieradzka A.

Wieki Stare i Nowe

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2023

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vol. 18

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issue 23

1-17

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The image childhood of royal children is a necessary addition to that of childhood in medieval and modern Poland. It should be noted that the expectation of a royal child had two dimensions, a readily apparent public one and a difficult-to-trace private one. A queen’s destiny for motherhood was emphasised in the process of her becoming the queen, which was divided into stages. In the history the Jagiellonian wives as mothers - six out of eleven wives were also mothers - there were numerous successful deliveries but there were also some miscarriages. The important issues in the research on this period include the queens’ behaviour during their pregnancies, their relationships with the husbands, their following of medical, healthcare, and midwife recommendations, their undertaking of various activities, the securing of the needs of the expected child, and, finally, the way they used this time to build their position and the image of queenship.

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Koniecznym dopełnieniem obrazu dzieciństwa w Polsce średniowiecznej i nowożytnej jest dzieciństwo dzieci królewskich. Oczekiwanie na dziecko królewskie miało dwa wymiary - lepiej widoczną perspektywę publiczną i trudniej uchwytny wymiar prywatny. Przeznaczenie królowej do macierzyństwa podkreślane było w rozpisanym na etapy procesie stawania się królową. W macierzyńskiej historii jagiellońskich żon - z jedenastu matkami zostało sześć - liczne były szczęśliwe rozwiązania, ale zdarzały się także poronienia. W badaniach nad kwestią oczekiwania na dziecko ważne są zagadnienia zachowania królowych w czasie ciąży, relacji z małżonkiem, przestrzegania zaleceń medycznych, opieki lekarskiej i akuszerskiej, podejmowania różnych aktywności, zabezpieczania potrzeb mającego się urodzić dziecka czy w końcu wykorzystanie tego czasu na budowanie pozycji królowej i jej queenship.

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Failed Mothers, Monster Sons. Reading Shakespeare’S Richard Iii as a Fairy Tale

Queenship, Power, and Elizabethan Mentalities in Shakespeare’s Histories

Oczekiwanie na dziecko w rodzinie królewskiej w Polsce w XV i XVI wieku