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.
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