'Where Lies this Power Divine?': The Representation of Kingship in Aphra Behn's Early Tragicomedies

Pacheco, Anita (2015). 'Where Lies this Power Divine?': The Representation of Kingship in Aphra Behn's Early Tragicomedies. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38(3) pp. 317–334.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12209

Abstract

This essay examines the representation of kingship in Behn's two early tragicomedies, The Young King and The Forc'd Marriage, arguing that they present astute interrogations of the doctrine of divine right monarchy which was peddled so zealously during the first decade of the Restoration.

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• Item ORO ID
• 42023
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1754-0208
• Keywords
• kingship; divine right; politics; royalism; tragicomedy; comedy
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Cultures > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Cultures
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
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• © 2014 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
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• Anita Pacheco