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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 third 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 1579 to 1595. Zusammenfassung The third 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 1579 to 1595. Inhaltsverzeichnis New Year's gifts given to the Queen, 1579 Edmund Spenser, 'Hobbinolls dittie in praise of Eliza, Queene of the Shepheards' The arrival and entertainment of Count Casimir, 22 January - 14 February 1579 Letter from the Earl of Leicester to William Davison, 12 February 1579 The court at Shrovetide, 1579 The Queen's progress into Essex and Suffolk, summer 1579 Orders for the Queen's reception at Colchester, 1 - 2 September 1579 Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1580 The Queen's summer progress, 1580 Letter from Lord Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 23 June 1580 The growth of the population in London Proclamation against new buildings in the City of London, 7 July 1580 Letter from the Queen to the Bishop, Dean, and Chapter of Chester, 29 September 1580 Extract from a wages account, 1580 Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1581 Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Bishop of Chester, 13 January 1581 The Queen at Whitehall, 20 - 22 January 1581 The tournament of Callophisus, 22 January 1581 The Queen visits the Golden Hind, 4 April 1581 The Queen visits Islington, 1581 Sir Henry Sidney's visit to Shrewsbury School, February - May 1581 The Four Foster Children of Desire (The Fortress of Perfect Beauty), May 1581 Letter from Queen Elizabeth to Sir Edward Sta...
