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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature. Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654). Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance. She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006. Klappentext The fourth 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 1596 to 1603. Zusammenfassung The fourth 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 1596 to 1603. Inhaltsverzeichnis Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 20 February 1596 Death of Lord Hunsdon, 23 July 1596 Edward Monings, The Landgrave of Hessen his princelie receiving of her Majesties Embassador, 16 August - 7 October 1596 The ceremony of Henri IV, King of France, being invested with the Garter, 19 August - 29 October 1596 Rates of servants, labourers, and hierers wages, appointed at the General Session for the Peace, within the City of Chester, 1596 Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 24 November 1596 Letter from George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 26 April 1597 Death of William Brooke, Lord Cobham, 6 March 1597 The order of receiving Queen Elizabeth in the College Church of Westminster the first day of parliament, 13 October 1597 The Queen's conference with the Polish ambassador, 25 July 1597 The Queen's conference with the Danish ambassador, September 1597 Letter from the Queen to Lady Norris, 22 September 1597 The Queen at Westminster, 14 November 1597 Letter from the Middle Temple to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1598 Death and funeral of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, August 1598 Julius Caesar's account of the Queen's visit to Mitcham, 12 - 13 September 1598 Letter ...
