absolute monarchy, 143, 269

Act of Indemnity, 48, 56, 209, 221, 224

Amazons, 15, 36, 43, 63n73, 137, 150, 158, 165n36, 167–170, 175–176, 190

anger, 209, 268

authority, 4, 35, 52, 54, 72, 74, 106, 108, 129, 142–143, 148, 157–158, 169, 172, 176–178, 185–189, 191, 200, 208, 222, 233, 242, 250, 253–254

Bakhtin, 107, 109

Barthes, 253

Breda, 48, 56, 215

carnival, 13–14, 31, 52, 100–102, 104, 107–110, 112, 124, 127–129, 280

Catholicism, 13, 41, 114, 116, 128, 244

Cavaliers, 1, 9, 13–14, 32, 37, 51–52, 90, 93, 100–105, 107, 109, 111–113, 120, 126–130, 242, 249, 251, 255, 279

Civil War. See chapter 1

clemency, 17, 37, 48, 50, 55–56, 82–83, 148, 213, 215, 221–225, 238, 244, 246, 257, 268, 281–283

Cleopatra, 84, 218–220

closet drama, 5, 23, 25, 28, 30–31, 33, 244, 278, 282

colonialism, 195

comedy, 10, 38, 100–102, 111, 128–129, 190–191, 255, 257–258, 263, 283–284

community

female community, 9–14, 36–37, 45–46, 52, 67–70, 72, 79–81, 84–85, 92, 94, 101, 105, 118, 126–129, 135, 149, 173, 214–215, 231, 250, 260, 278–279

Commonwealth, 4, 18, 30, 35, 42, 49, 54–55, 86, 88, 105, 118, 143, 151, 176, 212, 243, 246, 248–249, 260

consensus, 13, 100, 245, 281

court, 11, 31, 36, 43, 100, 102–103, 138–139, 169, 214–215

courtesans, 140–141, 209

Corneille, 33, 210–211, 224–226, 234

Cromwell, 1, 15, 33, 36, 39, 40–41, 48–49, 70, 186, 191, 196, 216, 224, 247, 260

Diggers, 71

divided self, 248

Dublin, 17, 33–34, 50, 211, 217, 281

Egypt, 218, 220–221, 223, 225, 281

Elizabeth I, 44, 137–138, 168, 172

Exclusion Crisis, 8, 36, 55, 101, 242–244, 255–256, 273, 282–283

Faerie Queen, The, 172

feminism, 6, 21, 27, 269

Filmer, 151, 244