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The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

Author : Jayne Elisabeth Archer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608793
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I written by Jayne Elisabeth Archer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The progresses provided hosts with unique opportunities to impress and influence the Queen, and became occasions for magnificent and ingenious entertainments and pageants, drawing on the skills of architects, artists, and craftsmen, as well as dramatic performances, formal orations, poetic recitations, parades, masques, dances, and bear baiting. The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I is an interdisciplinary essay collection, drawing together new and innovative work by experts in literary studies, history, theatre and performance studies, art history, and antiquarian studies. As such, it will make a unique and timely contribution to research on the culture and history of Elizabethan England. Chapters include examinations of some of the principal Elizabethan progress entertainments, including the coronation pageant Veritas temporis filia (1559), Kenilworth (1575), Norwich (1578), Cowdray (1591), Bisham (1592), and Harefield (1602), while other chapters consider the themes raised by these events, including the ritual of gift-giving; the conduct of government whilst on progress; the significance of the visual arts in the entertainments; regional identity and militarism; elite and learned women as hosts; the circulation and publication of entertainment and pageant texts; the afterlife of the Elizabethan progresses, including their reappropriation in Caroline England and the documenting of Elizabeth's reign by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians such as John Nichols, who went on to compile the monumentalThe Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823).

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

Author : Jayne Elisabeth Archer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191568090
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

Author : Jayne Elisabeth Archer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199291578
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I written by Jayne Elisabeth Archer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Elizabeth I was a Golden Age of English culture. Part of Elizabeth's policy of 'popular monarchy' took the form of tours throughout southern England and the Midlands. In return, her hosts staged theatrical performances, pageants, and entertainments. These essays explore the Elizabethan progresses from a range of perspectives.

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume V

Author : John Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199551421
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume V by : John Nichols

Download or read book John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume V written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England provides 26 appendices, a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and the index to Volumes I to V.

The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment

Author : Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316712540
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment written by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118823982
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance

Author : Dr Linda Briggs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472400429
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance written by Dr Linda Briggs and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, fashion, painting, sculpture, architecture, stage-and personnel-management and urban planning as evinced in spectacles staged on water. Bodies of water in all their variety are explored here: seas, rivers, fountains, lakes and canals and flooded improvised locations within or adjacent to great buildings all provided stages for elaborate and costly performances, utilising the particular qualities of water to reflect light and distort sound. The volume encompasses festivals marking a wide range of occasions from the election of civic officials, the welcome of a monarch, an investiture or coronation, to ambassadorial visits or the arrival of a royal or ducal bride or bridegroom. Often taking the form of re-enactments of naval battles or legendary seaborne quests, these festivals seek to buttress civic and national pride, make claims to mastery over the sea and landscape, and explore the imaginative as well as practical life of performance space which has been a hallmark of the research and publication of this volume's honorand, J.R. (Ronnie) Mulryne.

Making Make-Believe Real

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206917
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Making Make-Believe Real written by Garry Wills and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth. Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity’s rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth’s reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642

Author : Siobhan Keenan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192595814
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 written by Siobhan Keenan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 is the first study to focus on the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the travels and public profile of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king's progresses and Caroline progress entertainments than currently exists, this volumes throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the history opens with an introduction to the early modern culture of royal progresses and public ceremonial as inherited and practiced by Charles I. Part I explores the question of the king's accessibility further through case studies of Charles's three 'great' progresses in 1633, 1634, and 1636. Part II turns attention to royal public ceremonial culture in Caroline London, focusing on Charles's spectacular royal entry to the city on 25 November 1641. More widely travelled than his ancestors, Progresses reveals a monarch who was only too well aware of the value of public ceremonial and who did not eschew it, even if he was not always willing to engage in ceremonial dialogue with his subjects or able to deploy the propaganda power of public display as successfully as his Tudor and Stuart predecessors.

Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

Author : Katherine Butler (Music tutor)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839814
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Music in Elizabethan Court Politics written by Katherine Butler (Music tutor) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

Fêting the Queen

Author : John M. Adrian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613769058
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Fêting the Queen written by John M. Adrian and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a 1572 visit to Warwick, Queen Elizabeth looked out the window of her lodgings and saw local people dancing in the courtyard, a seemingly spontaneous performance meant to entertain her. During her travels, she was treated to fireworks, theatrical performances, and lavish banquets. Reconstructing the formal and informal events that took place throughout Elizabeth's progress visits, events rich in pageantry and ceremony, John M. Adrian demonstrates how communities communicated their character, as well as their financial and political needs, to noble guests. While previous scholars have studied Elizabeth I and her visits to the homes of influential courtiers, Fêting the Queen places a new emphasis on the civic communities that hosted the monarch and their efforts to secure much needed support. Case studies of the university and cathedral cities of Oxford, Canterbury, Sandwich, Bristol, Worcester, and Norwich focus on the concepts of hospitality and space-including the intimate details of the built environment"--

Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages

Author : Susan L. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319679708
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages written by Susan L. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study shows how echoic techniques permeated literary, dramatic, and musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting with sixteenth century translations of myths of Echo from Ovid and Longus, the book moves through the uses of echo in Elizabethan progress entertainments, commercial and court drama, Jacobean court masques, and prose romance. It places the work of well-known dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, in the context of broader cultures of performance. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama, music, and dance.

The Reformation and the Towns in England

Author : Robert Tittler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198207184
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Reformation and the Towns in England written by Robert Tittler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume III

Author : John Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199551405
Total Pages : 899 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume III written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England includes accounts of dramatic performances, orations, and poems, and a wealth of supplementary material dating from 1579 to 1595.

The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth

Author : John Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments

Author : Gabriel Heaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199213119
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments written by Gabriel Heaton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including tiltyard speeches and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the surviving material texts. It examines the 1602 Harefield entertainment, the 1575 Woodstock entertainment, the Merchant Taylors' and Theobalds' entertainments, and Ben Jonson's work for the Jacobean court.

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama

Author : Dr Michelle M Dowd
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478378
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama written by Dr Michelle M Dowd and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period. The essays assembled here address fascinating and hitherto unexplored questions raised by the subject of labor as it was taken up in the drama of the period: How were laboring bodies and the goods they produced, marketed and consumed represented onstage through speech, action, gesture, costumes and properties? How did plays participate in shaping the identities that situated laboring subjects within the social hierarchy? In what ways did the drama engage with contemporary discourses (social, political, economic, religious, etc.) that defined the cultural meanings of work? How did players and playwrights define their own status with respect to the shifting boundaries between high status/low status, legitimate/illegitimate, profitable/unprofitable, skilled/unskilled, formal/informal, male/female, free/bound, paid/unpaid forms of work? Merchants, usurers, clothworkers, cooks, confectioners, shopkeepers, shoemakers, sheepshearers, shipbuilders, sailors, perfumers, players, magicians, servants and slaves are among the many workers examined in this collection. Offering compelling new readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays in a broad range of genres (including history plays, comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, travel plays and civic pageants), this collection considers how early modern drama actively participated in a burgeoning, proto-capitalist economy by staging England's newly diverse workforce and exploring the subject of work itself.