Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England

1. Introduction
Elizabeth Clarke

2. Royal Brides and National Identity, 1603–25
Elizabeth Clarke

3.
The Mysticall Marriage, Martyrology and Arminianism, 1625–40
Elizabeth Clarke

4. Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court
Elizabeth Clarke

5. From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the Song of Songs
Elizabeth Clarke

6. The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride
Elizabeth Clarke

7. Politics, Metaphor and the Song of Songs in the 1670s
Elizabeth Clarke

8. Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride
Elizabeth Clarke

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Christian Theology, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe