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Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a substantial introduction, the texts enable an understanding of the motives underlying not only the progress itself, but the choice of locations the monarch elected to visit and the personal and political preoccupations of those with whom she determined to stay. Selected for their diversity, the entertainments exhibit the tensions underlying some royal visits, the lavish expenditure entailed for the monarch’s hosts and the overlap in terms of both material and authorship between the progress entertainments and the more widely studied products of the sixteenth-century stage.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: THE ROYAL PROGRESS

THE ENTERTAINMENT AT COWDRAY
Introduction
Text

THE ENTERTAINMENT AT ELVETHAM
Introduction
Text

THE ENTERTAINMENT AT BISHAM
Introduction
Text

THE ENTERTAINMENT AT MITCHAM
Introduction
Text
Appendix


THE ENTERTAINMENT AT CHISWICK
Introduction
Text

INDEX

Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 16 February 2021
      ISBN-13 9781526109484
      978-1526109484
      ISBN-10 1526109484
      Also in:
      Poetry ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a substantial introduction, the texts enable an understanding of the motives underlying not only the progress itself, but the choice of locations the monarch elected to visit and the personal and political preoccupations of those with whom she determined to stay. Selected for their diversity, the entertainments exhibit the tensions underlying some royal visits, the lavish expenditure entailed for the monarch’s hosts and the overlap in terms of both material and authorship between the progress entertainments and the more widely studied products of the sixteenth-century stage.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION: THE ROYAL PROGRESS

      THE ENTERTAINMENT AT COWDRAY
      Introduction
      Text

      THE ENTERTAINMENT AT ELVETHAM
      Introduction
      Text

      THE ENTERTAINMENT AT BISHAM
      Introduction
      Text

      THE ENTERTAINMENT AT MITCHAM
      Introduction
      Text
      Appendix


      THE ENTERTAINMENT AT CHISWICK
      Introduction
      Text

      INDEX

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