Griseldis (Perrault)

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Griseldis (French original title: La Marquise de Salusses ou la Patience de Griselidis ) is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault . It was published in verses in 1691, then in 1695 together with Die förichten Wünsche und Eselshaut with a new foreword, and later in prose with his other fairy tales in the Contes de ma Mère l'Oye collection .

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A graceful prince combines many virtues, but fears women he considers wrong. After he refused his subjects' request for a successor, he lost his entourage on the hunt and found a beautiful shepherd's daughter who showed him the way. In love, he visits her again and learns how modest Griseldis lives with her father. He lets the council know that he wants to choose a woman from the country, whereupon everyone dresses up and is amazed when he rides into the forest on the wedding morning. At first Griseldis says he is mocking, but complies with his wish to always obey him and quickly finds herself in her role as queen. When she has a child, he has it taken to the monastery and tells her that it died to test her virtue. After 15 years this daughter falls in love. The prince likes the son-in-law, but he pretends to want to marry her himself in order to test her. He sends Griseldis back into the forest to reveal her proven steadfastness to everyone. She has to prepare for the wedding at which he surprisingly reinstates her and gives the daughter to the young man. Everyone cheers and praises Griseldis' virtue.

Explanations

Perrault contrasts Griseldis' beauty and virtue with the prince's unfounded jealousy , only at the end the narrator also calls him the father . She presents the preface as a model of female virtue that has become rare. Doris Distelmaier-Haas notices the legendary rigidity and incredibility of the main character, where the very human prince could hold up the mirror to the reader. The story is tied to the formal tradition of antiquity and is said to have taken place at the beginning of the 11th century. She also appeared with Marie de France , in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone (X, 10), Francesco Petrarcas De obedientia ac fide uxoria mythologia , Lope de Vegas El ejemplo de casadas y prueva de la paciencia , with Gerhart Hauptmann Griselda .

See also Griseldis (Decamerone) , Maria Edgeworths The Modern Griselda , Friedrich Halms poem Griseldis , Hedwig Courths-Mahler's novel Griseldis . On the jealous prince, cf. also the framework of the Arabian Nights .

literature

  • Doris Distelmaier-Haas (Ed.): Charles Perrault. All fairy tales. Reclam, Ditzingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-008355-0 , pp. 11–33, 135 (translation by Doris Distelmaier-Haas after Charles Perrault: Contes de ma mère l'Oye. Texts établi, annoté et précédé d ' un avant-propos par André Cœuroy, Editions de Cluny, Paris 1948).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris Distelmaier-Haas (ed.): Charles Perrault. All fairy tales. Reclam, Ditzingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-008355-0 , pp. 11–33, 135 (translation by Doris Distelmaier-Haas after Charles Perrault: Contes de ma mère l'Oye. Texts établi, annoté et précédé d ' un avant-propos par André Cœuroy, Editions de Cluny, Paris 1948).

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