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Perception, power, plays, and print: Charles II and the restoration theatre of consensus
… dissertation aims to establish the importance of Charles II in the shaping and evolution of Restoration theatre. Even more so than the playwrights themselves, Charles II determined the future of the theatre, both by his conscious efforts to do so, as well as unintentionally through his own …
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Puritan and Papist: Politics and Religion in Massachusetts and Maryland Before the Restoration of Charles Ii
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The ‘Melancholy Pompous Sight’: Royal Deaths and the Politics of Ritual in the Late Stuart Monarchy, c. 1685-1714
… on those occurring between the death of King Charles II in 1685 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714. This topic has lacked in-depth archival study and the existing historiography has often focused on larger cultural forces. This thesis presents a series of case studies structured around one or …
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
… traveled to the New World, served as a spy for Charles II, and created controversy both as a result of her work and her lifestyle. This imaginative work examines the unique spirit of a remarkable woman through dramatic interpretation and historic research and illustrates how Behn’s frequently …
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Background to the murder of Major Denis Mahon, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon on 2 November, 1847.
… Park since the latter 17th Century. King Charles II rewarded Nicholas Mahon with two grants of land at Strokestown, County Roscommon, for services rendered to the crown. The estate continued within the family through turbulent periods of Irish history. In 1800, Maurice Mahon was bestowed …
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The origins and transformation of the nonjuror schism, 1670-1715 : illustrated by special reference to the career, writings and activities of Dr. George Hickes, 1642-1715
… policies of the crown in the later years of Charles II. Passive obedience, non-resistance and hereditary divine right were political theories based on scripture, the early church, the sufferings of the early martyrs and of Christ himself. The clergy, as a special class of educated …
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
… occupation from 1652 and the restoration of Charles II in 1660. By investigating how this period was remembered and reimagined, and by scrutinising the relationship between policies and practices, this thesis explores how Covenanting developed in the politically hostile environment of …
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Forbidden Fruit: Dryden's The State of Innocence And Fall of Man, An Operatic Version of Paradise Lost
… bride of James, Duke of York and brother to Charles II. Throughout the two works, theological, sociological, and political differences abound, but it is Dryden's stage characters that are the primary vehicles through which he portrays his divergence from Milton's epic. Lucifer, the ultimate …
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The Making of the Shrew: Comedy, Adaptation, and the Construction of Shakespeare's Cultural Authority on the Restoration and Eighteenth -Century Stage
… male hegemony in marriage in order to criticize Charles II and imagine for the theater a moral authority that counters the king's power to license the stage. Charles Johnson's The Cobler of Preston (1716) uses Shakespeare to attempt to delimit access to, and construct class hierarchies within, …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
General rejoicing greeted the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660; however the twenty-five year reign of the “merry monarch” was to become one characterised by division and dissent. This thesis analyses the passions of the period, which, although hitherto underexplored by …
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The metaphor of perspective
… portraiture and painting in order to celebrate Charles II and his generals and to portray a sense of national unity. Marvell alludes to English Mannerist and Dutch art traditions to create a poetic State Portrait designed to challenge Waller’s and Dryden’s Royalist interpretations of events. …
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The plight of the humanists: a reinterpretation of the battle between the ancients and the moderns
… domination of learning. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the new philosophy emerged as a strong force in the quest for knowledge. The new philosophers' vitality encouraged them to denounce human learning and propose the subordination of human learning to the ever-advancing new …
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The structure of politics in Cheshire, 1660-1715
… in the period between the restoration of Charles II and the accession of George I. The first chapter comprises a general survey of the county's economy., institutionss social structure and political development during the early and mid-seventeenth century. Chapter two shows how the …
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Yorkshire politics, 1658-1688.
… office holding took place until 1679-1683 when Charles II removed his most determined political opponents with the general support of Yorkshire's loyalist gentry. James II purged opponents of his catholicising policy and alienated the majority of the gentry by undermining their authority in the …
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The duke of Ormond, the Popish Plot, and the Exclusion Crisis, 1677-82.
… of crisis and despite his dire financial straits Charles II refused to have the institution of monarchy circumscribed by parliament. From this point onwards Ormond’ s position strengthened gradually culminating in his arrival in London to participate in the overthrow of the Whig political …
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From Irish Wig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat: The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738)
… he became involved with Whig radicals opposed to Charles II and James II in 1680s England. Hooke was the only Irish participant in Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. After experiencing defeat and exile he surrendered and was pardoned by James II in 1688. Converting to Catholicism, he remained loyal to …
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Taxation of agricultural lands with special reference to Manitoba
… repeated protests by parliament. At last, under Charles II, there was so little left of both kinds of lands and revenues that Parliament had the King surrender his rights in exchange of certain excise duties (1672), prohibited future alienations, and recognized, by parliamentary acts (1702), the …
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The impact of King James II on the departments of the royal household
… of the royal household during the reign of James II. In order to provide essential background, it does not confine itself just to that reign and so contains new information about the court of Charles II. In chapters one and two the reasons why James appointed the senior servants that he did in …
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Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
… remembered her for being the wife of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and for bringing tea culture to England from her home, Portugal. This idea, however, neglects the more significant role she played in the Restoration Period (1660-1685). The Restoration …
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