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The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I.

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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Archer, Jayne Elisabeth
Otros Autores: Goldring, Elizabeth, Knight, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; 1. Elizabetha Triumphans; I. THE ELIZABETHAN PROGRESSES: PATTERNS, THEMES, AND CONTEXTS; 2. Monarchy in Motion: An Overview of Elizabethan Progresses; 3. Giving and Receiving on Royal Progress; II. CIVIC AND ACADEMIC RECEPTIONS FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I; 4. Location as Metaphor in Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Entry (1559): Veritas Temporis Filia; 5. Spectator and Spectacle: Royal Entertainments at the Universities in the 1560s; 6. Mysteries, Musters, and Masque: The Import(s) of Elizabethan Civic Entertainments.
  • 7. Pulling the Strings: Religion and Politics in the Progress of 15788. The 'I' of the Beholder: Thomas Churchyard and the 1578 Norwich Pageant; III. PRIVATE RECEPTIONS FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I; 9. Portraiture, Patronage, and the Progresses: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575; 10. Contesting Terms: Loyal Catholicism and Lord Montague's Entertainment at Cowdray, 1591; 11. Elizabeth I's Reception at Bisham (1592): Elite Women as Writers and Devisers; 12. Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange.
  • IV. AFTERLIFE: CAROLINE AND ANTIQUARIAN PERSPECTIVES13. 'In the purest times of peerless Queen Elizabeth': Nostalgia, Politics, and Jonson's use of the 1575 Kenilworth Entertainments; 14. A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship: John Nichols and The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth; Select Bibliography of Secondary Criticism; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.