Title Civic performance : pageantry and entertainments in early modern London / edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) Series Studies in performance and early modern drama Studies in performance and early modern drama. Contents 'To the honour of our nation abroad' : the merchant as adventurer in civic pageantry / Tracey Hill -- Locating the rhinoceros and Indian : strangers, trade, and East India Company in Thomas Heywood's Porta Pietatis / Amrita Sen -- "Cleopatra in her barge" : Anne Boleyn's coronation pageants and the production of English cultural capital / Sarah Crover -- The unspoken language of aliens, or the spectacular conversation between visiting English and Dutch that transcended time and space / Nancy J. Kay -- The social and political dynamics of the Lord Mayor's show, c. 1550-1700 / Ian W. Archer -- Arion's harp, Apollo's lute : the instrumental sounds of London's Lord Mayors' shows / Jennifer Linhart Wood -- Financial encounter customs : tradition and form in London's civic pageantry / Jill Ingram -- The Duke of Lennox and civic entertainments / David M. Bergeron -- Stephen Harrison's The arches of triumph (1604) and James I's royal entry in the London literary marketplace / J. Caitlin Finlayson -- Musical transformations of the city soundscape : King James I's entry into London in 1604 / Katherine Butler -- Building a digital geospatial anthology of the mayoral shows / Janelle Jenstad and Mark Kaethler Summary "Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London. This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor's Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, and in doing so offers a study that is multi-faceted and wide-ranging, much like civic performance itself. Ideal for scholars of Early Modern global politics, economics, and culture; literary and performance studies; print culture; and the digital humanities, Civic Performance casts a new lens on street pageantry and entertainments in the historically and culturally significant locus of Early Modern London"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes J. Caitlin Finlayson is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of UGC-HRDC at the University of Calcutta, India Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2020) SUBJECT Lord Mayor's Show (London, England) -- History -- 16th century Lord Mayor's Show (London, England) -- History -- 17th century Subject Pageants -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century Pageants -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century Parades -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century Parades -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century. HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century. Manners and customs Pageants Parades SUBJECT London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078222 London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078223 Subject England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Finlayson, J. Caitlin, editor Sen, Amrita, editor LC no. 2019045566 ISBN 9781315392707 1315392704 9781315392684 1315392682 9781315392691 1315392690 9781315392677 1315392674

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