Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

Krawetz, Alexandra

Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

dc.contributor.author	Krawetz, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned	2014-04-21T21:29:03Z
dc.date.available	2014-04-21T21:29:03Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description	Honorable Mention winner of the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 2014.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	When King William III and Queen Mary II ascended to the English throne in 1689 they were relatively well received. However, by 1692 their relationship with the public was strained. This created a need for image rehabilitation that could be partially satisfied by a public work, such as semi-opera. The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell’s 1692 semi-opera, can be interpreted as a vehicle for this rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is achieved in this work through literary and historical allusions as well as an allegorical relationship between The Fairy Queen’s Queen Titania and England’s Queen Mary. Purcell subtlety reinforces these references and this relationship through instrumental, harmonic, and dramatic choices.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Krawetz, Alexandra. "Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen." (2014) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75928">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75928</a>.	*
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75928
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Rice University
dc.rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.title	Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen	en_US
dc.type.dcmi	Text	en_US
dc.type.genre	Research paper	en_US