Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Sex and dancing: Henrietta Maria's wedding ballets; 2. Artenice: a new French fashion at the English court; 3. Foreign bodies: conflict and co-operation in the early masques; 4. Family affairs: Henrietta Maria and continental politics in 1631; 5. Tempe Restored: exile/dispossession/restitution; 6. 'It is my voyce': the fashioning of a self in The Shepherds' Paradise; 7. 'Fate hath made thy reign her choice': The Temple of Love (1635); 8. Florimene: the author and the occasion; 9. Marie de Medicis and the last masques; 10. 'Tyer'd, in her Banish'd dress': Henrietta Maria in exile; Epilogue; Appendix: an early entertainment by Aurelian Townshend.