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Drama at the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Britland, Karen, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Henrietta Maria, > Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, > 1609-1669.
Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 17th century.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > History > Charles I, 1625-1649.
English drama > French influences.
Masques > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sex and dancing : Henrietta Maria's wedding ballets
  • Artenice : a new French fashion at the English court
  • Foreign bodies : conflict and cooperation in the early masques
  • Family affairs : Henrietta Maria and continental politics in 1631
  • Tempe restored : exile/dispossession/restitution
  • 'It is my voyce' : the fashioning of a self in The shepherd's paradise
  • 'Fate hath made thy reign her choice' : The temple of love (1635)
  • Florimène : the author and the occasion
  • Marie de Médicis and the last masques
  • 'Tyer'd, in her banish'd dress' : Henrietta Maria in exile
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix. An early entertainment by Aurelian Townshend.