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Royalists Write the Death of Lord Hastings: Post-Regicide Funerary Propaganda

Clarke, Sue

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Lachrymae Musarum; The Tears of the Muses, a volume of verse issued to commemorate the death of Lord Hastings in June 1649, has long been recognized as a covert attempt to mourn the death of Charles I. It is also susceptible to consideration as one of a number of royalist contributions to the propaganda skirmish fought out through funerary elegiac verse in the months after the regicide. Furthermore, it has not been previously noted that John Denham's and John Hall of Durham's contributions to...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorClarke, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:05:33Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T23:05:33Z
dc.identifier.issn0313-6221
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/85589
dc.description.abstractLachrymae Musarum; The Tears of the Muses, a volume of verse issued to commemorate the death of Lord Hastings in June 1649, has long been recognized as a covert attempt to mourn the death of Charles I. It is also susceptible to consideration as one of a number of royalist contributions to the propaganda skirmish fought out through funerary elegiac verse in the months after the regicide. Furthermore, it has not been previously noted that John Denham's and John Hall of Durham's contributions to Lachrymae Musarum borrowed heavily from Casimire Sarbiewski's 'Ode Against Tears.' As such, Denham's and Hall's contributions represent a particular kind of literary borrowing, one identified by Lois Potter as designed to generate and retain a coherent sense of royalist identity in the face of extreme pressure.
dc.publisherAustralian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
dc.sourceParergon
dc.titleRoyalists Write the Death of Lord Hastings: Post-Regicide Funerary Propaganda
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.citationvolume22
dc.date.issued2005
local.identifier.absfor200503 - British and Irish Literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub14074
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationClarke, Sue, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage113
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage130
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T08:01:03Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-67650351492
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