The Spanish match
Subtitle: Prince Charles's journey to Madrid, 1623
By: edited by Alexander Samson.
Contributors: Samson, Alexander.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 -- Travel -- Spain -- Madrid; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 -- Relations with Spaniards; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 -- Marriage; Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 -- Marriage; Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; British -- Spain -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1603-1625; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Spain; Spain -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Spain -- History -- Philip IV, 1621-1665; Madrid (Spain) -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Buying the Renaissance : Prince Charles's art purchases in Madrid, 1623 / Jerry Brotton; title: Dress to impress : Prince Charles plays Madrid, March-September 1623 / Lesley Ellis Miller; title: Entertainments in Madrid for the Prince of Wales. Political functions of festivities / David Sànchez Cano; title: The greatest news story since the Resurrection, Andrès de Almansa y Mendoza's coverage of Prince Charles' Spanish trip / Henry Ettinghausen; title: 1623 and the politics of translation / Alexander Samson; title: The Spanish literary response to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales / Jeremy Robbins; title: A fairy-tale marriage : Charles and Henrietta Maria's romance / Karen Britland; title: A French view of the marriage : Abraham Rm̌y's La Galatèe ou les adventures du prince Astiagès / Marie-Claude Canova-Green - "I am another woman" : the Spanish and French matches in Massinger's The Renegado (1624) and The Unnatural Combat (1624-5) / Claire Jowitt; title: The Black Knight's Festival Book : Thomas Middelton's A Game at Chess / Trudi Darby - "Honour Concealed; Strangely Revealed" : the fool and the water-poet / Clare Wikeley.