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This chapter examines Salmacida Spolia, the last masque performed by Charles I and Henrietta Maria in the context of coming civil war and the last gasps of a monarchy. The final Caroline masque provides a lens through which to view Henrietta Maria’s relationship to the English people. Although William Davenant presents the royal couple in opposition to the forces of disorder, this juxtaposition of the queen and female representations of disorder threatens to collapse. The chapter will show that in the rhetoric leading up to civil war and continuing into the Restoration, Henrietta Maria herself increasingly becomes connected to the iconography of Discord and disorder, a position that would persist in modern scholarship.
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Dunn-Hensley, S. (2017). Salmacida Spolia: The Last Masque of the Caroline Period and the English Civil War. In: Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63227-8_8
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