Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England
The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the sevent
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Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England
Also by Elizabeth Clarke THEORY AND THEOLOGY IN GEORGE HERBERT’S POETRY ‘THIS DOUBLE VOICE’: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (co-edited with Danielle Clarke)
Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England By
Elizabeth Clarke Reader in English, University of Warwick, UK
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Contents Acknowledgements
vi
Notes on reference to the text
viii
Introduction
1
1
Royal Brides and National Identity, 1603–25
19
2
The Mysticall Marriage, Martyrology and Arminianism, 1625–40
46
3
Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court
76
4
From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the Song of Songs
105
5
The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride
134
6
Politics, Metaphor and the Song of Songs in the 1670s
174
Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride
192
Notes
200
Bibliography
235
Index
254
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Acknowledgements Many thanks to the Leverhulme Trust for funding the year’s research which effectively got this book started, and Thomas Docherty, Head of Department at the University of Warwick, for the t
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