Author : Alice Hunt
Release : 2008-09-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The Drama of Coronation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Drama of Coronation write by Alice Hunt. This book was released on 2008-09-25. The Drama of Coronation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.