Ritual, Ostension and the Divine in the Stuart Masque

Author: Demaubus Thierry  

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISSN: 0269-1205

Source: Literature and Theology, Vol.17, Iss.3, 2003-09, pp. : 298-313

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Abstract

Examining the liturgical and iconographical nature of Stuart Court masques, this article argues that the masque performs a mode of incorporation representing the ritual of the transubstantiation of the individual into an absolute monarch. Masques are political, mythological, theological and cosmological events in which the divine right of kings is practised.