Griselda (folklore)
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Griselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure in European folklore noted for her patience and obedience.
In literature
In the most famous version of the Griselda tale, written by
Griselda appears in tales by
William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale (1623) features many elements of the Griselda story.[9] Anthony Trollope's high Victorian novel Miss Mackenzie (1865) is based on the Griselda theme. The Modern Griselda is a novel by Maria Edgeworth from 1804. Patient Griselda is one of a group of historical or legendary dinner-party guests in Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls. "Patient Griselda" is a 2015 short story by Steven Anthony George in the anthology Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, where the tale is retold as a late twentieth century horror story.
The tale of Griselda was re-imagined by Margaret Atwood in her short story "Impatient Griselda," which was published in The New York Times Magazine on July 12, 2020.[10]
In art
Boccaccio's story of Griselda is depicted in a set of three Sienese panel paintings dating from around 1490 which hang in the National Gallery in London. They are the work of an unnamed Italian artist known as the Master of the Story of Griselda.[11]
See also
- The Decameron – the most famous version of the Griselda tale
- Summary of Decameron tales
References
- ^ Boccaccio, Decamerone, day 10, tale 10.
- ^ "Boccaccio, Decameron, Day 10, Tale 10 (Italian, tr. into Mod. Engl.) (analogue of the Clerk's Tale)". sites.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ^ "Légendes médiévales: Décaméron 5/5". mythologica.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ISBN 9782858165308.[page needed]
- ^ "La Patience Griselidis, marquise de Saluces". bp16.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ISBN 978-0-14-190758-1.[page needed]
- ^ "British Painter Vanessa Garwood: Second Solo Exhibition At Rook & Raven - Artlyst". Artlyst. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ^ "Charles Perrault / Enrichetto dal ciuffo, la fiaba dimenticata che però insegna molto (oggi, 12 gennaio 2016)". Il Sussidiario.net. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- OCLC 910124763.[page needed]
- ^ Atwood, Margaret (8 July 2020). "Margaret Atwood: 'Impatient Griselda,' a Short Story". The New York Times.
- ^ "Master of the Story of Griselda | The Story of Griselda, Part I: Marriage | NG912 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
Further reading
- Bettridge, William Edwin; Utley, Francis Lee (1971). "New Light on the Origin of the Griselda Story". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 13 (2): 153–208. ProQuest 1305356697.
- Burger, Glenn D. (2018). "Affecting Conduct: Feeling Steadfast with Griselda". Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 141–190. JSTOR j.ctv16t6m9t.7.
- Cate, Wirt Armistead (1932). "The Problem of the Origin of the Griselda Story". Studies in Philology. 29 (3): 389–405. JSTOR 4172173.
- Rüegg, Madeline. The Patient Griselda Myth: Looking at Late Medieval and Early Modern European Literature. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- Shutters, Lynn (2009). "Griselda's Pagan Virtue". The Chaucer Review. 44 (1): 61–83. Project MUSE 315892.