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The Politics of Happiness in Richard Brome’s The Queen and Concubine
Steveker, Lena
2020In Critical Survey, 32 (3), p. 70-81
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Keywords :
Richard Brome; Charles I; Van Dyck
Abstract :
[en] Drama written for the commercial stage during the 1630s has long been seen as falling neatly into two categories: the majority of plays is seen as reflecting a courtly taste for cultural escapism believed to have been cultivated during a time in which the court increasingly found itself in opposition to the rest of the country. In contrast, a smaller group of plays is read as 'opposition drama' voicing thinly veiled discontent with Charles I’s personal rule. In this article, I challenge this critical dichotomy by arguing that Richard Brome’s The Queen and Concubine, written for the King’s Revels company in 1635-36, affirms notions of good government which are central to Caroline ideals of kingship. As I show, Brome’s play uses its female protagonist Eulalia, banished Queen of Sicily, in order to promote a politics of happiness that draws on the iconography of Charles I as well as on ideals of statecraft endorsed by the English king in the 1630s.
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Steveker, Lena  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
The Politics of Happiness in Richard Brome’s The Queen and Concubine
Publication date :
2020
Journal title :
Critical Survey
ISSN :
1752-2293
Publisher :
Berghahn Books, United Kingdom
Special issue title :
Fortune, Felicity and Happiness in the Early Modern Period
Volume :
32
Issue :
3
Pages :
70-81
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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