" The Queen of Hearts " is an English poem and a children's poem based on characters found on playing cards, by anonymous authors, originally published with three lesser known stanzas, " The King of Spades "," The King of Clubs ", and" The Diamond King ", in the British Publication The European Magazine , vol. 1, no. 4, in April 1782. However, Iona and Peter Opie argue that there is evidence to suggest that this other stanzas was later added to the older poems.
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Synopsis and structure
"The Queen of Hearts" tells us that Queen of Hearts made some tart pie that Knave of Hearts stole. The King of Hearts punished Knave, so he took them back and promised not to steal anymore.
- The Queen of Hearts
- He made some tar cakes,
- All on summer day;
- The Knave of Hearts
- He stole the cake,
- And bring it clean.
- The King of Hearts
- Called for Tart,
- And beat your shoulders sore;
- The Knave of Hearts
- Bring back the tart,
- And swear he will not steal anymore.
The other stanzas published with it have nothing to do with the domestic setting of the other three settings: "The King of Spades" flirts with the servants, so the Queen of Spades has been beaten and drives them out. He relents when Knave begs him on their behalf. "The King of Clubs" and his wife are constantly fighting, but Knave refuses to give him a chance. The author argues that the nobles who fought like that should be punished. "The Diamond King" and his wife would get along well, except Knave tried to seduce him; the author encourages the King to hang the Knave.
"The Queen of Hearts" proved by far the most popular of the stanza, and entered popular culture, while others fell into obscurity. Although originally published in magazines for adults, it eventually became famous as children's rhymes. In 1785, it was set for music.
Inspiration for characters
There is speculation about the model for the Queen of Hearts. In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the Queen of Hearts is based on Elizabeth from Bohemia. Benham, in his book Playing Card: The History of the Package and the Explanations of His Many Rings, notes that French game cards from the mid-seventeenth century had Judith of the Hebrew Bible as the Queen of the Heart. However, according to W. Gurney Benham, a scholar who examines the history of playing cards: "The old boys' rhymes of the Knave of Hearts that steal cakes and beaten for doing that by the King, seem to be nothing more than the fact that the 'hearts' with 'tart'. "
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Adaptations
The story of the poem is recounted in a much broader form in a poem of 1805 known as the King and the Queen of the Heart: with the Rogueries of the Knave who stole the Queen Pie by Charles Lamb, who gave each line of the original, followed by the poem who commented on the phone. In 1844, Halliwell included poetry in the 3rd edition of his book The Nursery Rhymes of England (though he dropped it from subsequent editions) and Caldecott made it the subject of one of his "Picture Books" of 1881, a series of poems containing the usual illustrations published in pairs before Christmas from 1878 until his death in 1886.
"The Queen of Hearts" is cited and forms the basis for Lewis Carroll's plot of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI: "Who Stole the Tarts?", A chapter that disparages the British legal system through the means of the Knave of Hearts trial , in which the poem is presented as evidence. Poetry became more popular after being included in Carroll's work.
A handful of The Bullwinkle Show, called "Bullwinkle's Corner," makes the moose star recite the poem, as if it were a means of promoting classical literature in vulgar comedy. In her performance, Queen of Hearts (Rocky the Flying Squirrel) baked a cake: "Soy, rutabaga, asparagus, and radish, I used my health-food cookbook!" The King (Bullwinkle Moose) replied, "Turn the TARTS?!? YUCK!" Where Knave of Hearts (Boris Badenov) stole them. Arrested by the King, Knave "... swore he will not steal anymore." But the King had another idea. "You can not go easily!" he warned. "You STOLE 'em, friends... you EAT' em!"
In the 2010 Burton 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) made her introduction exclaim that "SOMEONE HAS STOLE 3 OF MY TICKETS!" Unlike in poetry, the culprit is one of the footman the toads are then sent to be beheaded when the Red queens instructed her fish waiter to collect the footman toad boys whom she implied to love toast. In his follow up Alice Through the Looking Glass The White Queen has stolen a cake whose mother was baking and hiding crumbs near her sister's bed, the Red Queen.
References
Bibliography
- Carroll, Lewis (1865). Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland . Project Gutenberg . Retrieved July 29 2009 . Ã,
- Fordyce, Rachel; Carla Marello (1994). Semiotics and Linguistics in the World of Alice . Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-013894-8 . Retrieved July 29 2009 .
- Lamb, Charles (1805). King and Queen of the Heart . Thomas Harkins, Highway Street, London . Retrieved July 29 2009 .
- Reichertz, Ronald (2000). Making Alice's books . McGill-Queen's Press. ISBNÃ, 0-7735-2081-3 . Retrieved July 29 2009 .
- Zip, Jack; Paul, Lissa; Vallone, Lynne; Hunt, Peter; Avery, Gillian, eds. (2005). The Norton Anthology of Literature Children: Tradition in English . New York: WW Norton and Co. ISBNÃ, 0-393-97538-X.
External links
- Full text of "The Queen of Hearts", "The King of Spades", "The King of Clubs", and "The Diamond King" on Wikisource
- Media related to The Queen of Hearts (poetry) on Wikimedia Commons
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