Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles D'orléans

Spearing, A. C.

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“…The other trope is philosophical and sees imprisonment as the condition of the unenlightened earthly life." 33 Yet one aspect of the lover's incarceration in The Kingis Quair escapes this system of literal and figurative correspondences, namely, the figuration of the lovers' union as yet another form of incarceration. When his new, virtuous love that arguably eschews "lust and bestly appetite" condemned by Minerva (947) is referred to as "lufis yok" (1346), this figure of captivity and submission seems to go against the ethical and imaginitive logic of the text.…”

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“…The main danger to a country ruled by a king, meanwhile, is the ruler's inability to maintain justice, which for Buchanan -who describes justice as "the restraint of the passions" (25) -equals temperance. The sovereign is entrusted with upholding justice in the realm, but "since we fear that [the king] may not be strong enough to combat his emotions, which can and usually do divert men from the truth, we shall give him the law as a colleague or rather as a curb on his passions" (33). Kings, like all men, harbor "two hideous monsters .…”

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Ane Detectioun of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Languages of Royal Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland

Sokolov

2014

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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This essay investigates the rhetoric of royal imprisonment in Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes (1571), one of the most famous contemporary texts associated with the Marian controversy. This Anglo-Scots pamphlet not only invokes Mary’s actual incarceration but also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic of interlocking discourses are analyzed: the imagery of a ruler imprisoned by passions found in Boethius’s Consolatio; a courtly love allegory in which royal eros submits to the bondage of legal constraint in The Kingis Quair; and the figurations of limited monarchy as royal incarceration in the Anglo-Scots political philosophy of John Fortescue and George Buchanan. Much more than a broadly gendered metaphor for queenly submission, this language of royal imprisonment derives its legitimacy from discourses that touch upon the very ideological foundations of English and Scottish monarchy.

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Ane Detectioun of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Languages of Royal Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland

Sokolov

2014

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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“…Personification of mental processes creates a separation between the speaker and his heart, for example, and brings onstage Hope, Comfort, Gladness, Pain, Woe, ''Hevynes,'' Thought, and other abstractions. Spearing (1992) explores the divided self in Charles' English book, and ''the representation of subjectivity… not as single and stable but rather as a disputed territory whose boundaries shift… (p. 91).''…”

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“…269-345, at 344-345).14 Arn (1994) keeps the two carefully separate in her Biographical Sketch (pp. 12-22) Spearing (1992). admits to the difficulty of keeping them separate all through the poetry (p. 98).…”

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Making a Difference: Bilingualism and Re-creation in Charles d’Orléans

Klinck

2015

Neophilologus

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In the course of his 25-year captivity in England during the Hundred Years War, Charles duc d'Orléans produced two similar sequences of lyric poetry, purporting to be a reflection of his romantic life, his suffering after the death of his first love, and his eventual finding of a second love. One sequence is written in French, preserved in Charles' autograph manuscript (Paris BN fr. 25458), and one in English (in London BL Harley 682). One assumes that the French poems were directed at Charles' French, the English at his English public. But, since the now English-speaking upper class at this period usually knew French well, the impetus behind the English version cannot have been a need to make the inaccessible accessible. Attention to some highly interesting differences between Charles' French and English poems, and also to his own words about his craft, provides a possible explanation of what that impetus might be.Keywords Fifteenth century Á Medieval poetry Á Charles d'Orleans Á Translation between French and English Á Self-translationIn the course of his 25-year captivity in England, Charles duc d'Orléans produced two similar sequences of lyric poetry, purporting to be a reflection of his romantic life, his suffering after the death of his first love, and his eventual finding of a second love.

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The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

Ahnert

2013

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Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, but the religious and political instability of the Tudor reigns provided the conditions for the practice to thrive. This book shows the wide variety of genres that prisoners wrote, and it explores the subtle tricks they employed in order to appropriate the site of the prison for their own agendas. Ahnert charts the spreading influence of such works beyond the prison cell, tracing the textual communities they constructed, and the ways in which writings were smuggled out of prison and then disseminated through script and print.

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Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles D'orléans

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Ane Detectioun of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Languages of Royal Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland

Ane Detectioun of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Languages of Royal Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland

Making a Difference: Bilingualism and Re-creation in Charles d’Orléans

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

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