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IV The Queen Mother: Authority, Maternal and Seigneurial
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Published:August 2023
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The nineteenth-century literary critic William Hazlitt, commenting on William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, deems it “but natural for a mother to have more regard for her son than for a whole city,” for which reason, “The care of the state cannot...be safely entrusted to maternal affection.” Eleanor would ceaselessly advocate on her sons’ behalf, but this motherly love was seen, not as blinding her to a moral truth, as Hazlitt would have it, but on the contrary, as enabling her to apprehend a moral truth that her supposedly impartial contemporaries could not recognize. When Henry the Young King waged war against his father, Eleanor and her allies perceived him not as rebelling against a legitimate paternal authority, but as laudably seeking his own territories to rule. When Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned by the Holy Roman Empire upon his return from the Third Crusade, Eleanor publicly performed her natural affection for her son in a way that provided a model for his subjects’ natural affection for their lord. It was only when the unscrupulous John ascended to the throne that, at least for sixteenth-century playwrights, Eleanor’s ambition for her son became indistinguishable from her own ambition.
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