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Zusatztext elegantly constructed... All the papers have something new and interesting to say. Informationen zum Autor Jayne Elisabeth Archer is Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Wales, AberystwythElizabeth Goldring is Research Fellow at the University of WarwickSarah Knight is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Notes on contributors ; List of illustrations ; List of maps ; 1. Introduction: Elizabetha Triumphans ; I. THE ELIZABETHAN PROGRESSES: PATTERNS, THEMES, AND CONTEXTS ; 2. Monarchy in Motion: An Overview of the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth I ; 3. Gift-Giving and Hospitality on the Elizabethan Progresses ; II. CIVIC AND ACADEMIC RECEPTIONS FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I ; 4. Location as Metaphor in Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559): Veritas Temporis Filia ; 5. Royal Entertainments at the Universities: Playing for the Queen ; 6. Mysteries, Musters, and Masque: The Import(s) of Elizabethan Civic Entertainments ; 7. Pulling the Strings: Religion and Politics in the Progress of 1578 ; 8. 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'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 PERSPECTIVES ; 13. 'In the purest times of peerless Queen Elizabeth': Jonson and the Politics of Caroline Nostalgia ; 14. A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship: John Nichols and the Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth ; Select Bibliography of Secondary Criticism ...
