Alice Hunt

The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England

      Cambridge University Press. New Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. The coronation was, and still is, one of the most important ceremonies of an English monarch's reign. Alice Hunt's study examines the five royal coronations that took place between 1509 and 1559, and considers how they were perceived and described by contemporary observers such as courtiers and playwrights. Hunt challenges the popular position that has sought to conflate royal ceremony with political propaganda, and argues for a deeper understanding of its complexity. At the heart of the study is an investigation into the vexed issues of legitimisation and correct forms of representation, and Hunt identifies the emergence of an important and fruitful exchange between ceremony and drama. This will have important implications for our understanding both of the period's theatre and of the Protestant Reformation's effects as a whole, and will be of great interest to scholars and students of late medieval and Renaissance literature. ISBN10: 0521885396.