Like wand’ring gipsy’
Fortune-telling, the Spanish gipsy, and the Cassandra myth on the Victorian stage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Monrós-Gaspar (0000-0002-8160-6623, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-330 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Receptions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-5134 • E-ISSN: 1759-5142 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/crj/clw009 |
| OpenAlex | W2473997266 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article aims to shed light on the semiotic possibilities of Victorian theatre as well as uncovering hidden substrata of the reception of the Cassandra myth in England. Nineteenth-century refigurations of Cassandra manifested ambivalent contemporary attitudes towards women and knowledge. Thus, Cassandra paralleled prevailing conceptions of social stereotypes on the periphery and was equated with false prophets, fortune-tellers, mendicants, witches, and most important for this article, gipsies. An intertextual analysis of comic refigurations of the myth and stage adaptations of Miguel de Cervantes’ La gitanilla (The Little Gipsy) allow us to understand how Priam’s daughter became Cassandra the gipsy both in highbrow and popular reworkings of the myth in the Victorian period. As shall be demonstrated, the aesthetic links between Cassandra and the Spanish gipsy respond to cultural and political paradigms which question the association between women and knowledge
Ambivalence · Art · Comics · Literature · Mythology · Politics · Semiotics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |