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The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I
Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight
324 pages
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24 black and white illustrations, 2 maps
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234x156mm
978-0-19-929157-1
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Hardback
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29 March 2007
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- Brings together new research on the progresses, entertainments, and pageants of Queen Elizabeth I
- Encompasses contributions from history, English literature, antiquarian studies, history of art, theatre studies, and history of the book
- Fully illustrated
- Includes a select bibliography of secondary material
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).Readership: Scholars and students of Tudor history, Renaissance literature, theatre studies, history of art, and antiquarian studies.
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Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Elizabeth Goldring, Research Fellow, University of Warwick, and Sarah Knight, Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Leicester Contributors:
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas
Mary Hill Cole, Mary Baldwin College, Virginia
Patrick Collinson, Trinity College, Cambridge
Elizabeth Goldring, University of Warwick
Felicity Heal, Jesus College, Oxford
Elizabeth Heale, University of Reading
Gabriel Heaton, University of Warwick
Siobhan Keenan, De Montfort University, Leicester
Sarah Knight, University of Leicester
James Knowles, Keele University
Hester Lees-Jeffries, St Catherine>'s College, Cambridge
C. E. McGee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Julian Pooley, University of Leicester
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"the essays in this collection... cast the net widely, and to illuminating effect." - Lawrence Manley, The Review of English Studies "Like Nicholss original collection ...the essays in this collection... cast the net widely, and to illuminating effect." - Lawrence Manley, The Review of English Studies "elegantly constructed... All the papers have something new and interesting to say."
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Notes on contributors
List of illustrations
List of maps
1: Jayne Archer and Sarah Knight: Introduction: Elizabetha Triumphans
I. The Elizabethan Progresses: Patterns, Themes, and Contexts
2: Mary Hill Cole: Monarchy in Motion: An Overview of the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth I
3: Felicity Heal: Gift-Giving and Hospitality on the Elizabethan Progresses
II. Civic and Academic Receptions for Queen Elizabeth I
4: Hester Lees-Jeffries: Location as Metaphor in Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559): Veritas Temporis Filia
5: Siobhan Keenan: Royal Entertainments at the Universities: Playing for the Queen
6: C. E. McGee: Mysteries, Musters, and Masque: The Import(s) of Elizabethan Civic Entertainments
7: Patrick Collinson: Pulling the Strings: Religion and Politics in the Progress of 1578
8: David M. Bergeron: The 'I' of the Beholder: Thomas Churchyard and the 1578 Norwich Pageant
III. Private Receptions for Queen Elizabeth I
9: Elizabeth Goldring: Portraiture, Patronage, and the Progresses: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575
10: Elizabeth Heale: Contesting Terms: Loyal Catholicism and Lord Montague's Entertainment at Cowdray, 1591
11: Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson: Elizabeth's Reception at Bisham (1592): Elite Women as Writers and Devisers
12: Gabriel Heaton: Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange
IV. Afterlife: Caroline and Antiquarian Perspectives
13: James Knowles: 'In the purest times of peerless Queen Elizabeth': Jonson and the Politics of Caroline Nostalgia
14: Julian Pooley: A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship: John Nichols and the Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
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