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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A Darker Shade of Pale: Webster’s Winter Whiteness by Annaliese CONNOLLY, Lisa HOPKINS

“…We argue, however, that it is actually white which is represented as the more sinister of the two colours, for reasons connected to the plays’ interest in the bodies and behaviour of rulers, specifically James I’s scheme for the annexation of Russia and his reburial of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.Reading the plays in relation to these two contemporary events, we argue that in his two great tragedies Webster prises open the instability of the term “white” to lay bare a tension between the spiritual and the material which reveals the darker side of whiteness.…”
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