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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

2016-05-06 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-05-06
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Book Synopsis Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court by : Kevin Curran

Download or read book Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court written by Kevin Curran. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.

Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

2014-04-23 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-04-23
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by : D. Williams

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood written by D. Williams. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.

Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England

2019-05-31 History
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Release : 2019-05-31
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Book Synopsis Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England by : Calvin F. Senning

Download or read book Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England written by Calvin F. Senning. This book was released on 2019-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I’s reign alarms occurred. One grew out of the king’s plan, opposed by Spain, to marry his daughter Elizabeth to the Calvinist elector of the Palatinate. The other derived from a rekindling of the disputed succession in the Cleves-Jülich duchies in the lower Rhineland, into which Spanish forces intervened militarily, while England suspected the formation of a large Spanish-led Catholic league, seemingly bent on invasion, which caused a few days of panic in London. Both scares were based on misinformation and rumor, worsened by longstanding English anxiety over Spanish designs and doubts about the loyalty of English Catholics, the persecution of whom intensified. The latter scare occasioned the appearance in London of a satirical print, long thought in England to be lost, of James holding the pope’s nose to the grindstone, but a copy sent to Madrid by the Spanish ambassador has survived, and, reproduced here, preserves what appears to be the oldest known example of English political satire in the print medium.

The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612

2020-09-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-09-07
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Book Synopsis The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 by : Allison L. Steenson

Download or read book The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 written by Allison L. Steenson. This book was released on 2020-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern scholars. Through the lenses of the Hawthornden fragments, this book engages in the exploration of one of the "cultural places of the European Renaissance", represented by the extensive use of emblems and other literary devices, and by the use of manuscript copies to circulate them. The discourse mainly focuses on the Jacobean courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century, from the point of view of a Scottish insider. By focusing on the intellectual makeup of the court in the newly united Great Britain, this work aims at bridging manuscript scholarship and literary studies with a wider perspective on contemporary society, politics and culture.

Anna of Denmark

2020-06-11 History
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Release : 2020-06-11
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Book Synopsis Anna of Denmark by : Jemma Field

Download or read book Anna of Denmark written by Jemma Field. This book was released on 2020-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women. Illustrated with a fascinating array of objects and artworks, the book follows a trajectory that begins with Anna’s exterior spaces before moving to the interior furnishings of her palaces, the material adornment of the royal body, an examination of Anna’s visual persona and a discussion of Anna’s performance of extraordinary rituals that follow her life cycle. Underpinned by a wealth of new archival research, the book provides a richer understanding of the breadth of Anna’s interests and the meanings generated by her actions, associations and possessions.

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