RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
T1 Fictional characterization of Mary I, England’s first Queen regnant
A1 García García, Alicia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Mary I
K1 Bloody Mary
K1 Elizabeth I
K1 audio-visual fiction
K1 black legend
K1 characterization
K1 María I
K1 María la Sangrienta
K1 ficción audiovisual
K1 leyenda negra
K1 caracterización
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The image of Mary Tudor has been vilified throughout the years with the propagation of several defaming texts and illustrations overshadowing her royal status and forgetting the humiliations and miseries she experienced alongside her father and afterwards during her reign. For this reason, this dissertation is aimed at examining the history of Mary and her representation as a fictional character. To do this, I used two historical books which describe in detail the life of Mary Tudor: Mary Tudor: A Life by David Loades and María Tudor: La Gran Reina Desconocida by María Jesús Pérez. In addition, I used three audio-visual resources in order to study the way she is characterized: Elizabeth I by Shekhar Kapur, Carlos, Rey Emperador by Oriol Ferrer and The Tudors by Michael Hirst. The historical analysis showed that despite her fame, her rule had a reasonably good outcome for England, whose principal objective was to fulfil her mother’s religious duty by restoring Catholicism in England. She was ‘’bloody’’, but just as the rest of the monarchs, since violence was a power tool very frequented by them at that time. The fictional research shows that Mary is characterized in different ways, being more positively represented lately.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51329
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51329
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-may-2024