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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court book

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

DOI link for Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court book

ByKevin Curran
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 6 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594033
Pages 198 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315594033
SubjectsArea Studies, Arts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Curran, K. (2009). Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594033

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|40 pages

Inventing a Language of Union

chapter 2|32 pages

Erotic Policy:The Rhetoric of Anglo-Scottish Marriage

chapter 3|40 pages

Competing Fictions and Fictional Authority at the Palatine Wedding Celebrations

chapter 4|32 pages

Relocating Monarchical Rhetoric:The Entertainments for Robert Carr and

ByFrances Howard
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