The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture, 1603-40

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This project studies court festival during the reigns of James I and Charles I in relation to the wider public culture of kingly display. It explores the politics of masques, investigating the way masques legitimated kingly rule by invoking particular ideological values, but also the opportunity taken by some subjects to use masques to talk back to the monarch. It will put the masques in a framework defined by the most recent historiography, particularly viewing Stuart Whitehall as a powerful institution. Rather than as a royal dynasty on the verge of inevitable collapse.