Marriage, Performance, and Politics At the Jacobean Court

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance. Scripted for high-profile weddings by such writers as Jonson, Campion, Chapman, and Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of King James's English reign and played a key role in the development of a specifically Jacobean form of national identity.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Inventing a Language of Union; Chapter 2 Erotic Policy: The Rhetoric of Anglo-Scottish Marriage; Chapter 3 Competing Fictions and Fictional Authority at the Palatine Wedding Celebrations; Chapter 4 Relocating Monarchical Rhetoric: The Entertainments for Robert Carr and Frances Howard; Chapter 101 Afterword;

About the author

Kevin Curran is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of North Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Curran, Curran Kevin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138257672
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25767-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama