Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 1998 in the subject English - Literature, Works, University of Birmingham (Shakespeare Institute), language: English, abstract: An Introductory chapter justifies the study of staged pageantry in terms of related research and acknowledges the aptness of the pageantic mode for the second tetralogy before glancing at pageantry within the contemporary social context. A brief survey of pageantry in Shakespearean productions from the Restoration to 1900 provides an historical context for the thesis which shows that 'pictorial' pageantry, though vilified...