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This chapter begins with a discussion of images of female power in Tempe Restored. It continues with an examination of Walter Montagu’s The Shepherd’s Paradise and the 1634 revival of John Fletcher’s Faithful Shepherdess. Read together, these two plays present a powerful image of Catholic community, female empowerment and options for rethinking the sacred space. For Catholics, this entertainment would have presented an image of Catholic utopia. For the Protestants, the plays represented Henrietta Maria’s extravagance and her immorality. The final portion of this chapter draws connections between Tempe Restored and John Milton’s Masque at Ludlow Castle to suggest the influence of the queen’s entertainments as well as the Protestant response to them.
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Dunn-Hensley, S. (2017). Envisioning a Catholic Utopia: The Faithful Shepherdess and The Shepherd’s Paradise . In: Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63227-8_7
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