A single significant Jacobean country house, Theobalds, provides the focus for this study. James Sutton here delves into the cultural and political aspirations of the two men most closely associated with Theobalds: William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), who constructed the building, and his second-born son and political scion, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). Attending to the opulent materials and hegemonic spatial codes that enabled Theobalds' fabrication, this book also demonstrates the enormous costs - economic, political, social, but especially familial and personal - of "building to envious show" in the period. Neither celebrating nor castigating the Cecils' conspicuous consumption at their Hertfordshire estate, the author offers a balanced appraisal of the aesthetic strategies through which they promulgated a family narrative. The forms of display he emphasizes are those in which Theobalds was particularly strong: architecture, gardening, the decorative arts, and above all, the occasional drama. Through its detailed rhetorical analysis of one house and one family, this book provides a fresh view of the complex passage from Elizabethan to Jacobean style. Joining the ongoing scholarly conversation about the period's cultural poetics, Materializing Space at an Early Modern Prodigy House deepens our understanding of how early modern English men and women chose to be represented, both to themselves and to others.
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James M. Sutton is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, USA.
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"Theobalds." In contemporary England, the word carries far less significance than it did 400 years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rude repose, country house discourse, occasional palace, stately ascent, spatial poetics, primary threshold, prodigy house, progress visits, glancing surfaces, parliamentary survey, base court, decorative program, withdrawing chamber, domestic loss, painted gallery, great chamber, axial approach, screens passage, political heir, privy garden, spatial practices, old gallery, privy chamber, southern range Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Cecil, Middle Court, William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Burghley, Great Garden, King James, Yale University Press, The Building of Theobalds, Burghley House, Earl of Salisbury, Pauline Croft, Green Gallery, Cambridge University Press, Great Gallery, Hatfield House, The Early Cecils, Lady Burghley, Cecil Papers, Elizabethan Theobalds, Earl of Essex, Elizabeth Tudor, The Portable Queen, Works of Ben Jonson, Lucy Gent New!
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"Theobalds." In contemporary England, the word carries far less significance than it did 400 years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rude repose, country house discourse, occasional palace, stately ascent, spatial poetics, primary threshold, prodigy house, progress visits, glancing surfaces, parliamentary survey, base court, decorative program, withdrawing chamber, domestic loss, painted gallery, great chamber, axial approach, screens passage, political heir, privy garden, spatial practices, old gallery, privy chamber, southern range Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Cecil, Middle Court, William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Burghley, Great Garden, King James, Yale University Press, The Building of Theobalds, Burghley House, Earl of Salisbury, Pauline Croft, Green Gallery, Cambridge University Press, Great Gallery, Hatfield House, The Early Cecils, Lady Burghley, Cecil Papers, Elizabethan Theobalds, Earl of Essex, Elizabeth Tudor, The Portable Queen, Works of Ben Jonson, Lucy Gent New!
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- Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils by Ms. Pauline Croft on 26 pages
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- The Mental World of the Jacobean Court by Linda Levy Peck on 8 pages
- The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque by David Bevington on 7 pages
- The Renaissance Garden in England by Roy Strong on 5 pages
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