Conjurations and Eleanor Cobham in Tudor History, Poetry, and Drama
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
Eleanor Cobham, the spouse of King Henry VI’s uncle, participated in what historian Francis Young calls “the most famous case of magical treason” in the fifteenth century (35). This article examines Tudor representations of this incident in three genres: Edward Hall’s chronicle, The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and York (1548), William Baldwin’s versified histories, A Mirror for Magistrates (1578), and William Shakespeare’s history play, Henry VI, Part 2 (1591). Problems originate from arrogant or contentious individuals in “The XX Yere” of Henry’s reign in Union; fortune plays a diminished role for Eleanor in Baldwin’s poetry, considering works in the de casibus tradition. Conspiracy, Queen Margaret’s antagonism, and the summoning of a spirit in Henry VI, Part 2, absent from previous histories, illustrate how factions target Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and consequently increase disputes during the Wars of the Roses. Furthermore, authorities in the sixteenth century would have been wary of ambiguous prophecies that had the potential to provoke insurrection. In Shakespeare’s histories rivals conspire to consolidate power under a childless king; therefore, Elizabethan audiences saw the threats to their own monarch foreshadowed in the earlier reign.
Abstract
Eleanor Cobham, the spouse of King Henry VI’s uncle, participated in what historian Francis Young calls “the most famous case of magical treason” in the fifteenth century (35). This article examines Tudor representations of this incident in three genres: Edward Hall’s chronicle, The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and York (1548), William Baldwin’s versified histories, A Mirror for Magistrates (1578), and William Shakespeare’s history play, Henry VI, Part 2 (1591). Problems originate from arrogant or contentious individuals in “The XX Yere” of Henry’s reign in Union; fortune plays a diminished role for Eleanor in Baldwin’s poetry, considering works in the de casibus tradition. Conspiracy, Queen Margaret’s antagonism, and the summoning of a spirit in Henry VI, Part 2, absent from previous histories, illustrate how factions target Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and consequently increase disputes during the Wars of the Roses. Furthermore, authorities in the sixteenth century would have been wary of ambiguous prophecies that had the potential to provoke insurrection. In Shakespeare’s histories rivals conspire to consolidate power under a childless king; therefore, Elizabethan audiences saw the threats to their own monarch foreshadowed in the earlier reign.
참고문헌 (20)
- Baldwin, William, "The Mirror for Magistrates" (1960), Barnes and Noble
- Crawford, Anne, "The Yorkists : The History of a Dynasty" (2007), Hambledon Continuum
- Fernie. Ewan, "Shame in Shakespeare" (2002), Routledge
- Griffiths, Ralph A, "The Trial of Eleanor Cobham: An Episode in the Fall of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester", Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 51(2), pp.381~399 (1969)
- Hall, Edward, "Hall’s Chronicle; Containing the History of England, During the Reign of Henry the Fourth, and the Succeeding Monarchs, to the End of the Reign of Henry the Eighth, in Which Are Particularly Described the Manners and Customs of Those Periods", J. Johnson, ~ (1809)
- Howard, Jean E, "The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England" (1994), Routledge
- Howard, Jean E., "Engendering a Nation : A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories" (1997), Routledge
- Jankowski, Theodora A, "Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama" (1992), U of Illinois P
- Kahn, Coppélia, "Man’s Estate : Masculine Identity in Shakespeare" (1981), U of California P
- Orgelfinger, Gail, "Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829" (2019), Penn State UP
- Rackin, Phyllis, "Stages of History : Shakespeare’s English Chronicles" (1990), Cornell UP
- Robbins, P. R, "Discerning Voices in the Trial of Joan of Arc and The Book of Margery Kempe", Fifteenth-Century Studies, 38, pp.175~234 (2013)
- Sanok, Catherine, "Good King Henry and the Genealogy of Shakespeare’s First History Plays", Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 40(1), pp.37~64 (2010)
- Schwyzer, Philip, "Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales" (2004), Cambridge UP
- Shakespeare, William, "King Henry VI Part 1" (2000), Arden
- Shakespeare, William, "King Henry VI Part 2" (1999), Arden
- Skura, Meredith, "A Mirror for Magistrates and the Beginnings of English Autobiography", English Literary Renaissance, 36(1), pp.26~56 (2006)
- Tillyard, E. M. W., "Shakespeare’s History Plays" (1944), Penguin
- Winston, Jessica, "A Mirror for Magistrates and Public Political Discourse in Elizabethan England", Studies in Philology, 101(4), pp.381~400 (2004)
- Young, Francis, "Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England : A History of Sorcery and Treason" (2018), I. B. Tauris