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Cambridge University Press The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture

Name: The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Court masques were multi-media entertainments, with song, dance, theatre, and changeable scenery, staged annually at the English court to celebrate the Stuart dynasty. They have typically been regarded as frivolous and expensive entertainments. This book dispels this notion, emphasizing instead that they were embedded in the politics of the moment, and spoke in complex ways to the different audiences who viewed them. Covering the whole period from Queen Anne's first masque at Winchester in 1603 to Salmacida Spolia in 1640, Butler looks in depth at the political functions of state festivity. The book contextualizes masque performances in intricate detail, and analyzes how they shaped, managed, and influenced the public face of the Stuart kingship. Butler presents the masques as a vehicle through which we can read the early Stuart court's political aspirations and the changing functions of royal culture in a period of often radical instability.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Model: Illustrated
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521883547
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 February 2009
Listed Since: 03 March 2008

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