Introduction: Representing restored monarchy. -- Re-presenting and reconstituting kingship. Rewriting royalty ; Redrawing regality ; Rituals of restored majesty ; A changed culture, divided kingdom and contested kingship. -- Confessional kingship? Representations of James II. Prologue: A king represented and misrepresented ; A king of many words ; A popish face? Images of James II ; Staging Catholic kingship ; Countering 'Catholic kingship' and contesting revolution. -- Representing revolution. Prologue: An image revolution? ; Scripting the revolution ; Figuring revolution ; A king off the stage ; Rival representations. -- Representing Stuart queenship. Prologue: Semper Eadem? Queen Anne ; A Stuart's words: Queen Anne and the scripts of post-revolution monarchy ; Re-depicting female rule: The image of the queen ; Stuart Rituals: Queen Anne and the performance of monarchy ; Party contest and the queen
Summary
"In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors."-- Publisher's website
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 682-818) and index
