Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Representing restored monarchy.
  • Re-presenting and reconstituting kingship. Rewriting royalty ; Redrawing regality ; Rituals of restored majesty ; A changed culture, divided kingdom and contested kingship.
  • Confessional kingship? Representations of James II. Prologue: A king represented and misrepresented ; A king of many words ; A popish face? Images of James II ; Staging Catholic kingship ; Countering 'Catholic kingship' and contesting revolution.
  • Representing revolution. Prologue: An image revolution? ; Scripting the revolution ; Figuring revolution ; A king off the stage ; Rival representations.
  • Representing Stuart queenship. Prologue: Semper Eadem? Queen Anne ; A Stuart's words: Queen Anne and the scripts of post-revolution monarchy ; Re-depicting female rule: The image of the queen ; Stuart Rituals: Queen Anne and the performance of monarchy ; Party contest and the queen.