Cultural References
Emma was played by Elizabeth Hubbard in the 1970 television movie The Ceremony of Innocence. She is also the protagonist of Helen Hollick's 2004 novel, A Hollow Crown (US title, The Forever Queen) and (as 'Ymma') a central character in the 1999 play Silence by Moira Buffini. In the latter, she is married off to the Viking Silence, Lord of Cumbria, by Ethelbert. He then regrets his decision, pursues her and Silence to Cumbria, kills (as he thinks) Silence and marries Ymma. In the meantime, Ymma has discovered Silence is in fact a woman, but she survives the execution to become Ymma's maid after Ymma's marriage to Ethlebert. An epilogue to the play then tells of Ymma's reign alongside Ethelbert and her marriage to Canute.
Read more about this topic: Emma Of Normandy
Famous quotes containing the word cultural:
“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being “mother’s only accomplishment,” today’s children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child’s needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)