The Drama of Coronation Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England 1st Edition by Alice Hunt ISBN 978-0521885393 0521885396
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ISBN 10: 0521885396
ISBN 13: 978-0521885393
Author: Alice Hunt
The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch’s reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants responded to monarchical and religious change, and charts how they were interpreted by contemporary observers. Hunt challenges the popular position that has conflated royal ceremony with political propaganda and argues for a deeper understanding of the symbolic complexity of ceremony. At the heart of the study is an investigation into the vexed issues of legitimacy and representation which leads Hunt to identify the emergence of an important and fruitful exchange between ceremony and drama. This exchange will have significant implications for our understanding both of the period’s theatre and of the cultural effects of the Protestant Reformation.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Why Crown a King? Henry VIII and the Medieval Coronation
Chapter 2: ‘Come My Love Thou Shalbe Crowned’: The Drama of Anne Boleyn’s Coronation
Chapter 3: ‘But a Ceremony’: Edward VI’s Reformed Coronation and John Bale’s King Johan
Chapter 4: ‘He Hath Sent Marye Our Soveraigne and Quene’: England’s First Queen and Respublica
Chapter 5: ‘A Stage Wherin Was Shewed the Wonderfull Spectacle’: Representing Elizabeth I’s Coronation
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