How far does the work of Brome and / or Davenant from the early 1640s address the political tensions of the 1630s?

Essay based on William Davenant, Salmacida Spolia (1640) and Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew (1641).
Secondary readings: Richard Cust, ‘The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637-1642’ in Michael Braddick ed. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (OUP, 2015), pp. 60-75.

We worked on the two following portraits as well – Pre-Civil War Courtly Aesthetics
– Portraits of Charles and Henrietta Maria by Van Dyck
What messages about the political power of the monarchy do you think the portraits communicate? How do they compare / contrast?

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