TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Self Fashioning through Performance: From Church to Palace 2. Importing the Habsburgs’ Language of Empire: the Golden Age, Chivalry and Fabulous Genealogies 3. Philip III’s Dynastic Performance of Habsburg Policy: The Masque of Valladolid 1605 4. Court Actors and Court Stages under Philip III and Philip IV 5. The Golden Age at the Court of the King of Spain 6. Performing the King Divine Conclusion Works Cited Index