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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