The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture, 1603-40

这个项目研究了詹姆斯一世和查理一世统治时期的宫廷节日与国王展示的更广泛的公共文化的关系。它探讨了面具的政治，调查了面具通过援引特定的意识形态价值观而使国王统治合法化的方式，但也调查了一些受试者利用面具与君主对话的机会。它将把面具置于最新历史学定义的框架内，特别是将斯图尔特·怀特霍尔视为一个强大的机构。而不是作为一个处于不可避免崩溃边缘的王朝。

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.