Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London

ISBN-13: 9781032174884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

J. Caitlin Finlayson; Amrita Sen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction Part I: Civic to Global  1. ‘To the Honour of our Nation abroad’: The Merchant as Adventurer in Civic Pageantry  2. Locating the Rhinoceros and Indian: Strangers, Trade, and East India Company in Thomas Heywood’s Porta Pietatis  3. "Cleopatra in Her Barge": Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Pageants and the Production of English Cultural Capital  4. The Unspoken Language of Aliens, or the Spectacular Conversation between Visiting English and Dutch that Transcended Time and Space  Part II: Material Encounters  5.The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor’s Show, c. 1550-1700  6. Arion’s Harp, Apollo’s Lute: The Instrumental Sounds of London’s Lord Mayors’ Shows  7. Financial Encounter Customs: Tradition and Form in London’s Civic Pageantry  Part III: Methodologies for Re-viewing Performance  8. The Duke of Lennox and Civic Entertainments  9. Stephen Harrison’s The Arches of Triumph (1604) and James I’s Royal Entry in the London Literary Marketplace  10. Musical Transformations of the City Soundscape: King James I’s Entry into London in 1604  11. Building a Digital Geospatial Anthology of the Mayoral Shows  Index

O autorze

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.