Jayne Elisabeth (Hrsg.) Archer

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

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More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The progresses provided hosts with unique opportunities to impress andinfluence the Queen, and became occasions for magnificent and ingenious entertainments and pageants, drawing on the skills of architects, artists, and craftsmen, as well as dramatic perfo… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Goldring, Elizabeth (Hrsg.) / Knight, Sarah (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-156809-1
EAN: 9780191568091
Produktnummer: 13936566
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'920 KB
Abbildungen: 24 black and white illustrations, 2 maps

Über den Autor

Dr Jayne Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English, University of Wales (Aberystwyth). 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 General Editor of Court and Culture in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of John Nichols's Progresses (OUP,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 England.Elizabeth Goldring is a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's AHRC Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures and an Associate Fellow of Warwick's History of Art Department. She is a General Editor of Court and Culture in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of John Nichols's Progresses, for which she has also edited several entertainment texts. Previous publications include (co-editor) Court Festivals of the European Renaissance:Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) and (associate general editor) Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). She has served as a Consultant to English Heritage at Kenilworth Castle.Dr Sarah Knight is lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published essays on early seventeenth-century satire and on academic print culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and has translated and co-edited Leon Battista Alberti's Momus for the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press, 2003). Dr Knight is associate general editor of Court and Culture in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition ofJohn Nichols's Progresses, for which she has edited and translated the material relating to the University of Oxford.