A Revolution in Cards: The Orange Playing Cards (1689) as Precursors of Political Comics
The Reign of James II-The Revolution deck of playing cards, commonly known as The Orange cards, illustrated by Francis Barlow (c.1626-1704) and distributed in London in 1689, relates the key events of what went down in history as the Glorious Revolution. The images, which take up most of the playing...
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2026
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | The Reign of James II-The Revolution deck of playing cards, commonly known as The Orange cards, illustrated by Francis Barlow (c.1626-1704) and distributed in London in 1689, relates the key events of what went down in history as the Glorious Revolution. The images, which take up most of the playing cards, work in tandem with the short texts printed at the bottom of the cards or in speech bubbles, to recall the key events in the Whig historiography of the period. Each playing card has its own meaning which emerges from the joint work of texts and images, but each card is also part of an overall story, that of the Revolution. The question of narrativity and temporality is at the heart of this sequential art form, considered by some historians as the precursor of the comic strips. This article looks at the various links underlying the text-image relationship on the Orange playing cards, which, like comic strips, leave an active role to the reader, who must not only fill the narrative void contained in the “gutters” and understand the causal or temporal links between the images but also infer the meaning created by the poly-semiotic genre. |
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