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This article aims to illuminate the political implications in Ben Jonson's “Epithalamion, or a Song Celebrating the Nuptials of that Noble gentleman, Mr. Jerome Weston, Son and Heir of the Lord Weston,Lord High Treasurer of England, with the Lady Frances Stuwart,Daughter of Esme, Duke of Lenox, deceased, and Sister of the surviving Duke of the same name.”Though this poem apparently congratulates the marriage of Jerome Weston and Frances Stuwart, its central focus is on King Charles 1and the politico-cultual situations in his court. The wedding song is a medium through which Jonson pays tribute to the ideal love and marriage of Charles 1 and Henrietta-Maria. The poet and the sun,symbol of the king, both witness and direct the procession of the nuptial ceremony. In his efforts to communicate with the sun with intimacy and authority, the poet reveals his desire to recover the royal patronage and the poet laureateship that he enjoyed under the reign of James 1. In his praise of the royal marriage as the ideal of all marriages with a strong emphasis on the authority of the king, Jonson seem to slightly disparage the Platonic love fashion which Henrietta Maria carried over to the English court. In addition, her insignificant presence in this poem reflects Jonson's awareness of the political conflicts between the queen and his patron, Richard Weston. Jonson's last Epithalamion becomes an encoding of the political and cultural situations in the Caroline court where Jonson strives to position himself as an influential poet laureate.
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Ben Jonson, epithalamion, Charles 1, Henrietta-Maria,Richard Weston, Jerome Weston, Frances Stuwart, préciosité, Platonic love fashion, court literature and politics, patronage
