Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…This paper examines three cinematic portrayals of Mary Queen of Scots, the first by John Ford in 1936, the second by Charles Jarrott in 1972 and the last by Gillies MacKinnon in 2004. …”
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Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610) by Marie-Céline Daniel

“…The English authorities were aware that Queen Elizabeth herself was a potential target of similar projects and so they chose to use prints as a way to heal the body politic: narratives about the execution of regicides were thus published in order to publicise the recovery of the community as a whole. The case of Mary Queen of Scots’ execution is of momentous interest, in so far as it was construed both as a regicide and as necessary surgery aiming at severing one member from the body, so as to save the whole body.…”
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