Author | Álvarez Recio, Leticia
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Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana) |
Date | 2012 |
Published in |
Sederi: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, 22, 7-27.
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Abstract | In the years 1622-1623, at the climax of the negotiations for the
Spanish-Match, King James enforced censorship on any works
critical of his diplomatic policy and promoted the publication of
texts that sided with his ...
In the years 1622-1623, at the climax of the negotiations for the
Spanish-Match, King James enforced censorship on any works
critical of his diplomatic policy and promoted the publication of
texts that sided with his views on international relations, even
though such writings may have sometimes gone beyond the
propagandistic aims expected by the monarch. This is the case of
Michael Du Val’s The Spanish-English Rose (1622), a political tract
elaborated within court circles to promote the Anglo-Spanish
alliance. This article analyzes its role in producing an alternative
to the religious and imperial discourse inherited from the
Elizabethan age. It also considers the intertextual relations
between Du Val’s tract and other contemporary works in order to
determine its part within the discursive network of the Anglican
faith and political absolutism. The reasons why it may have
exerted a negative influence on both the English and Spanish
royal households are explored as well
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Citation | Álvarez Recio, L. (2012). Pro-Match literature and royal supremacy: the case of Michael Du Val's The Spanish English Rose (1622). Sederi: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, 22, 7-27. |