- Title
- The Faire Queene who liked blacks
- Creator
- Butler, Guy F
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1996
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457753
- Identifier
- vital:75676
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_91
- Description
- Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), wife ofJames VI of Scotland and I of England, needs to be rescued from undeserved neglect. The literature about her husband, the Scottish Solomon, is extensive, I as is that about her younger son, King Charles 1; 2 her eldest son, the heroic Henry, who died young,(and with it, it seems, the English Renaissance) has been recently studied and psychoanalysed; 3 and her daughter Elizabeth, who married the Elector Palatine, has attracted much sympa-thetic biography as the Winter Queen or the Queen of Hearts 4 The on-ly recent biography of Anne, Ethel Carlton Williams's Anne of Denmark (1970), does little to modify the almost unanimous verdict that she was" a dumb blonde,"(Ashley 116) whose" innate frivolity"(Stephen 431) was in some respects proof against the influences of the fair education which her parents provided for their children. According to the Diction-ary of National Biography," in the midst of her mostly frivolous existence she would seem to have cherished a desire if not to have possessed a capacity for higher things"(Stephen 441). I find it difficult to reconcile this vacuous figure with the woman who endured an appalling marriage with her homosexual husband; who, though a Lutheran by upbringing, rebelled against the rigours of the Scots Kirk, and became a Catholic; who had the personal confidence, within three months of arriving in England, to star as Juno in a court masque 6 with her ladies in waiting; who on Twelfth Night, 1605, appeared with them, all blackface, in The Masque of Blackness 7-a revolutionary work which critics agree marks a new beginning in the history of the English theatre.
- Format
- 21 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Butler, F.G., 1996. The Faire Queene who liked blacks. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 9(1), pp.1-21, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 9 number 1 1 21 1996 2071-7504
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