Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989), to be precise, and now part of chapter
three of her book, the Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame
in earl Modern Englanfd (Cornell UP, 1993).
pch
At 03:57 PM 11/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Anne's repsonse jogged my memory re an article by Gail Kern Paster in
>the late eighties in the Shakespeare Quarterly, I think, involving the
>trope of blood in Julius Ceasar and how gender is implicated in images
>of blood and bleeding in the play. May be worth Checking out.
>
>Gary Ettari
>
>Anne Prescott wrote:
> >
> > Just catching up on e-mail and reading quickly, so forgive me if I am
> > simply repeating what others have said. On hearts: if I were into hearts
> > I'd look particularly hard at emblem books. Wasn't there a Dutch
> > (?) one with
> > lots of Cupids and hearts. A man with a name iwth "veen" in it? In any
> > case hearts were big in emblem books--bleeding, glowing, whatever. Hearts
> > are also interesting in terms of early modern notions of blood
> > circulation and whether or not some of our mental or emotional processes
> > were located there or elsewhere. I assume that Spenser feels
> > "heart-robbing gladness" when Elizabeth Boyle is nice to him because a
> > happy heart sends blood to the surface whereas a pained one needs blood to
> > succor it? Or is that backwards? On lions: I've spent fruitless time
> > wondering if Spenser could possibly have known the romance by Chretien de
> > Troyes with a knight and a lion. It's a nice lion, too. Anne.
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Matthew STEGGLE(SCS) wrote:
> >
> > > There is a thing about the Lion being a symbol of England, isn't there?
> > >
> > > According to Brewer's Dict. of Phrase and Fable
> > > http://www.bartleby.com/81/10346.html
> > > the Lion represents England. See also
> > > http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/174/1122/14804/1/frameset.html
> > > http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/761.html
> > >
> > > - and what about that nursery rhyme about the lion and the unicorn,
> which
> > > represent the English and the Scottish monarchies.
> > >
> > > It's still with us as a national symbol - 3 lions on the chest of the
> English
> > > football team shirt - and a little lion is printed on English hen's
> eggs -
> > > hurrah!
> > > see http://www.britegg.co.uk/homepage/index2.htm for details.
> > >
> > > That's about as far as I can take the idea off the top of my head.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Matt.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -
> > >
> > >
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> > > Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University
> > > Montgomery House, 32 Collegiate Crescent, Collegiate Campus
> > > Sheffield S10 2BJ - UNITED KINGDOM
> > > Tel: (+44) 114 225 4350
> > > Home: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/ms/index.html
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