Kevin Curran
Ashgate
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Marriage Performance and Politics in 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 played a key role in the development of early Stuart monarchical rhetoric. The study addresses important questions about the nature of gender royal and rhetorical authority national identity and performance in the Jacobean court.
Ashgate
Hardback
190
Marriage Performance and Politics in 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 played a key role in the development of early Stuart monarchical rhetoric. The study addresses important questions about the nature of gender royal and rhetorical authority national identity and performance in the Jacobean court.