This is not every night : space, time, and group identity in the Jacobean court masque

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dc.contributor.advisorMallin, Eric Scott
dc.contributor.advisorWojciehowski, Hannah Chapelle, 1957-
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKornhaber, David D
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLoehlin, James N
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMarcus, Leah S
dc.creatorLindsay, Thomas Edward
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-15T16:09:35Z
dc.date.available2017-05-15T16:09:35Z
dc.date.issued2015-08
dc.date.submittedAugust 2015
dc.date.updated2017-05-15T16:09:35Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the relationship between space, time, dramatic narrative, and group identity in the Jacobean court masque. In early 17th century England, the court masque was a high-profile and multimodal seasonal event for the nation’s royal family and their court. Critics have recognized many of the ways the masque bonded this group together, but have not shown how its cohesive power manifested in individual masques. Following critical consensus, this dissertation first shows how all masque events, regardless of their particular elements and contexts, involved courtiers in embodied experiences of group inclusion, socio-political hierarchy, and royal favor. Next, in a series of case studies, this dissertation shows how three Jacobean masques tapped into these experiences in order to orient the court around various human centers, namely King James I, Queen Anna, Prince Henry, and Gentlemen of the royal Bedchamber. These case studies demonstrate how masques used dramatic narrative to engineer group experience and group identity, specifically by making meaning out their own socio-political realities in space and time. In general, then, this dissertation envisions the court masque as a highly self-referential form of participatory drama and social partying that worked to shape group identity by collapsing the court’s present realities into its socio-politically meaningful dramatic fictions.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2XS5JN9R
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/46894
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCourt
dc.subjectMasque
dc.subjectCourt masque
dc.subjectJacobean court masque
dc.subjectRevels
dc.subjectJames I
dc.subjectAnna of Denmark
dc.subjectHenry, Prince of Wales
dc.subjectBen Jonso
dc.subjectInigo Jones
dc.subjectSpace
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectGroup identity
dc.subjectEphemerality
dc.subjectEmbodied experience
dc.titleThis is not every night : space, time, and group identity in the Jacobean court masque
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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