Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
2 - A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Before the starry threshold of Joves Court
My mansion is
From Comus (The first Scene discovers a wilde Wood)and walking in a curious garden … I began to sing forth his praises, and continued while it was so late in the evening, that my friends that walked with me thought it convenient to lead me into the house
Anna Trapnel, Report and PleaBut while I was singing praises to the Lord for his love to me, the Justices sent their Constable to fetch me
Anna Trapnel, Report and PleaIn the “revelatory” conclusion to Thomas Carew's Stuart masque, Coelum Britannicum (1634), King Charles I and Henrietta Maria are deified. Mercury plays their Attendant Spirit, conducting his Lady, the actual Queen, and her king into the hallowed halls of sanctified sovereignty: “Then shall you see / The sacred hand of bright eternity; Mould you to stars, and fix you in the sphere / To you your royal half, to them she'll join / Such of this train as with industrious steps / In the fair prints your virtuous feet have made, / Though with unequal paces, follow you” (186). Here Carew even grants Henrietta and Charles, the royal twins, “carlomaria,” a virtual monopoly over this Platonic realm of representation and visibility, of personhood, perfection, and power. It was, the masque proclaimed, these two alone who were graceful and “formed fit for heaven” (189) enough to “dispense to th' world a pure refined influence” (168).
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- Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth CenturyEnglish Women Writers and the Public Sphere, pp. 62 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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