"I’ay mis la main au papier pour escrire / D’un different que i’ay voulu transcrire" : Translation, Politics and Mary Stuart’s Poetical Voice

Hancisse, Nathalie
(2015) Les Arts poétiques du XIIIe au XVIIe siècles. Tensions et dialogue entre théorie et pratique — accepted/in-press

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In de facto multilingual literary environment, practitioners of poetry were inevitably confronted with translation issues that have been little explored so far. The (sometimes underestimated) interactions between art, translation and politics, and the influence of translation and translated poetry on the development of English artes poeticae were considerable, as exchanges between different cultural and linguistic areas allowed for foreign trends to put down deep roots in England. Still regarded as a second-rate language unworthy of great poetical achievements – not least by its own users – English relied heavily on translation of poetry from other European vernaculars to shape its own new poetical forms. This paper will explore different aspects of the interactions between the development of literary (poetical) theory, multilingualism and politics, and their subsequent tensions. This will be illustrated by a study of some poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a special focus on the poems included in the so-called “Casket Letters”, which have been used as a major piece of evidence in the questioning of the legitimacy of her reign in Scotland, although the authenticity of these poems could never be firmly established.
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Hancisse, N. (2015). “I’ay mis la main au papier pour escrire / D’un different que i’ay voulu transcrire” : Translation, Politics and Mary Stuart’s Poetical Voice. In Les Arts poétiques du XIIIe au XVIIe siècles. Tensions et dialogue entre théorie et pratique. Brepols. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/47186