Staging the old faith : Queen Henrietta Maria and the theatre of Caroline England, 1625-1642
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Staging the old faith : Queen Henrietta Maria and the theatre of Caroline England, 1625-1642
Manchester University Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-254) and index
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Description
Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.
Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audience her role as defender of English Catholics, against an exploration of how this community responded to such a startling vision, in particular through the politically charged texts of James Shirley and William Davenant.
This engagement on the stage with the anxieties and hopes of the English Catholic community (properly contextualised within the wider and increasingly fragmented religious landscape in the years leading to civil war) opens up Caroline commercial theatre as a site which energetically discussed the explosive religio-political topics of the cultural moment. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction - Counter-Reformation politics and the Caroline stage
1. The public discourse of religion in Stuart England
2. James Shirley: the early texts, 1625-29
3. 'A case for conscience': Issues of allegiance and identity, 1630-33
4. William Davenant: the chimera of religious reunion, 1634-37
5. 'A broken time': The tempering of an international Catholicism, 1637-40
Conclusion -- .
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