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elogo bottom Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration
MOTHER GOOSE
what makes a Mother Goose a Mother Goose?
the nursery rhymes
Mother Goose visual challenges
life and history
zimmerli art museum
emergent literacy
social & political uses of Mother Goose
censorship
advertisement and imagery
digitization of early nursery rhyme books
an early Mother Goose play
mother goose online
RESOURCES
research pathfinder
bibliographies
external resources
glossary

The Queen of Hearts

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Visual Interpretations

Grab and Run - The knave gets away

Back to the Action - Turn around, Queen

Captured and Crying - The guilty knave repents

Serene Scene - No thievery yet

Busy Mother - Peeping knave

Textual/Historical Information

The Rhymes - If you think a tart can be umimportant, you are mistaken.

http://i-p-c-s.org/history.html "A Brief History of Playing Cards" from the International Playing-Card Society.

http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/seaan-cardhist.html Hisory of the Introduction of Playing Cards in Europe.

http://www.wopc.co.uk/cards/collecting.html "Collecting English Playing Cards" by Donald Welsh.

Versions and Variants

Textual Versions and Variants - A complete listing of the versions and variants of this rhyme

Visual Versions and Variants - A comparative listing of all associated within Eclipse

Rhyme Specific Bibliography

Baring-Gould, William S. and Ceil. The Annotated Mother Goose. NY: NAL (Meridian), 1967.

Benham, W. Gurney, Sir, 1859-1944. Playing cards; history of the pack and explanation of its many secrets; with 242 illustrations. London , Melbourne: Ward, Lock & co., 1931.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Lewis Carroll. NY: Chelsea House, 1987.

Gardener, Martin, ed. The Annotated Alice . Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin,1970.

Hancher, Michael. The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books. Ohio State University Press, 1985. (This is a very cool book.)

Hargrave, Catherine Perry. A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming. NY: Dover Edition, 1966. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, NY, 1930.

Heath, Peter. The Philosopher's Alice. NY: St. Martin 's Press, 1974.

Hoffmann, Detlef. The Playing Card. An Illustrated History. Trans. by C.S.V. Salt. NY: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. (German edition 1972.)

Kelly, Richard. Lewis Carroll. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Opie, Iona & Peter. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Phillips, Robert, ed. Aspects of Alice . NY: Vintage, 1971.

Rackin, Donald, ed. Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland and Through theLooking Glass: Nonsense, Sense, and Meaning. NY: Twayne, 1991.

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858. Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood.London , R. Triphook, 1816.

Thomas, Katherine Elwes. The Real Personages of Mother Goose. N.P.: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1930.

 



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