The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199673759
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 233x159x18 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 monumental The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823).
Review from previous edition the essays in this collection... cast the net widely, and to illuminating effect.
Table of Contents:
Notes on contributors
List of illustrations
List of maps
Introduction: Elizabetha Triumphans
I. The Elizabethan Progresses: Patterns, Themes, and Contexts
Monarchy in Motion: An Overview of the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth I
Gift-Giving and Hospitality on the Elizabethan Progresses
II. Civic and Academic Receptions for Queen Elizabeth I
Location as Metaphor in Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559): Veritas Temporis Filia
Royal Entertainments at the Universities: Playing for the Queen
Mysteries, Musters, and Masque: The Import(s) of Elizabethan Civic Entertainments
Pulling the Strings: Religion and Politics in the Progress of 1578
The 'I' of the Beholder: Thomas Churchyard and the 1578 Norwich Pageant
III. Private Receptions for Queen Elizabeth I
Portraiture, Patronage, and the Progresses: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575
Contesting Terms: Loyal Catholicism and Lord Montague's Entertainment at Cowdray, 1591
Elizabeth's Reception at Bisham (1592): Elite Women as Writers and Devisers
Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange
IV. Afterlife: Caroline and Antiquarian Perspectives
'In the purest times of peerless Queen Elizabeth': Jonson and the Politics of Caroline Nostalgia
A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship: John Nichols and the Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
Select Bibliography of Secondary Criticism
