EXAM - English literature 2
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impact. Like gods come down to earth.
2. The Caroline masque
Charles decided on subject matter, and acted and danced in masques. Now the regal divinity even more
obvious. Ben Jonson. Divine minds of this incomparable pair. Arts role – to set a noble ideals, to strengthen
practice of virtue. He and queen living incarnations of ideals. Visual style of his reign more classical than
James’s. Thomas Carew „Coelum Britannicum”. King’s policy of peace (peace in every courtly
celebration). Benefits to the isle by the union of divine couple. Henrietta Maria Love and Beauty and
Charles – Heroic Virtue, together a great force. Masques centre of court life. Stuart divinity + now queen as
a Platonic love goddess. Maria – from French court amnners and highly artificial language of adoration –
fashion. Idealised love wiped away all stains. Through their harmony, Charles could make his heavenly
annaabi.ee 
