Drama at the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria
By: Karen Britland.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521847971
Subjects: Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 -- Relations with courts and courtiers; Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- French influences; Masques -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649
Description: A study of Queen Henrietta Maria's patronage of drama in England and her French heritage. This book considers her upbringing at the French court and her later exile in France during the English civil wars, and challenges the received notions about her activities in England during the 1630s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sex and dancing : Henrietta Maria's wedding ballets; title: Artenice : a new French fashion at the English court; title: Foreign bodies : conflict and cooperation in the early masques; title: Family affairs : Henrietta Maria and continental politics in 1631; title: Tempe restored : exile, dispossession, restitution; title: "It is my voyce" : the fashioning of a self in The shepherd's paradise; title: Fate hath made thy reign her choice; title: Florimene : the author and the occasion; title: Marie de Médicis and the last masques; title: "Tyer'd, in her banish'd dress" : Henrietta Maria in exile.