In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors. “Like many works not yet in the publication pipeline at the time of the author’s death, it could easily have been lost to us if Sharpe’s friend and colleague Mark Knights had not seen it through its final stages. We all owe Knights a debt of gratitude, both because of the book's quality and the fact that it is a fitting monument to one of the foremost historians of the early modern world.” “Sharpe writes beautifully and the book is a long, lush walk through the public rituals of monarchy, the depiction of monarchs by artists and hack engravers, wordsmiths and preachers. Sharpe clearly enjoyed exploring the nuances of this world of physical and allegorical spectacle and offers a wealth of examples to illustrate his argument. And it is a convincing one.” “This reviewer . . . was left dazzled and admiring of the wonderful scholarship that [Sharpe] displays and the insights that he offers [and] . . . is to be recommended to any student of the period. It will be the starting point for any consideration of the cultural presentation of the early modern English monarchy for the foreseeable future.”—Daniel Szechi, BBC History Magazine -- Daniel Szechi ― BBC History Magazine Published On: 2013-09-01 "Few scholars, if any, can match Sharpe’s knowledge of such a broad range of materials across the early modern period, or can boast of having written so authoritatively about both the Tudor and Stuart centuries and about both the pre- and post- Civil War eras."—Tim Harris, Literary Review -- Tim Harris ― Literary Review Published On: 2013-11-01 ‘The strengths of Sharpe’s earlier work are still in evidence: wide-reading, detailed and subtle exposition of written and visual texts.’—Jean Wilson, TLS -- Jean Wilson ― TLS Published On: 2014-05-24 The late Kevin Sharpe was Leverhulme Research Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was the author of The Personal Rule of Charles 1 , Reading Revolutions , Selling the Tudor Monarchy, and Image Wars . REBRANDING RULE THE RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION MONARCHY, 1660–1714 By KEVIN SHARPE Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 2013 Estate of Kevin Sharpe All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-300-16201-1 Contents List of Illustrations......................................................viiForeword...................................................................xiiPreface and Acknowledgements...............................................xviIntroduction: Representing Restored Monarchy...............................1I Re-presenting and Reconstituting Kingship................................91 Rewriting Royalty........................................................112 Redrawing Regality.......................................................943 Rituals of Restored Majesty..............................................1484 A Changed Culture, Divided Kingdom and Contested Kingship................194II Confessional Kingship? Representations of James II......................223Prologue: A King Represented and Misrepresented............................2255 A King of Many Words.....................................................2276 A Popish Face? Images of James II........................................2657 Staging Catholic Kingship................................................2878 Countering 'Catholic Kingship' and Contesting Revolution.................308III Representing Revolution................................................341Prologue: An Image Revolution?.............................................3439 Scripting the Revolution.................................................35310 Figuring Revolution.....................................................40911 A King off the Stage....................................................44912 Rival Representations...................................................481IV Representing Stuart Queenship...........................................507Prologue: Semper Eadem? Queen Anne.........................................50913 A Stuart's Words: Queen Anne and the Scripts of Post-Revolution Monarchy...................................................................51514 Re-Depicting Female Rule: The Image of the Queen........................57815 Stuart Rituals: Queen Anne and the Performance of Monarchy..............61616 Party Contest and the Queen.............................................646Ep