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 and influence 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 performances, formal orations, poetic recitations,
parades, masques, dances, and bear baiting.
The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I
is an interdisciplinary essay collection, drawing together new and
innovative work by experts in literary studies, history, theatre
and performance studies, art history, and antiquarian studies. As
such, it will make a unique and timely contribution to research on
the culture and history of Elizabethan England. Chapters include
examinations of some of the principal Elizabethan progress
entertainments, including the coronation pageant Veritas temporis
filia (1559), Kenilworth (1575), Norwich (1578), Cowdray (1591),
Bisham (1592), and Harefield (1602), while other chapters consider
the themes raised by these events, including the ritual of
gift-giving; the conduct of government whilst on progress; the
significance of the visual arts in the entertainments; regional
identity and militarism; elite and learned women as hosts; the
circulation and publication of entertainment and pageant texts;
theafterlife of the Elizabethan progresses, including their
reappropriation in Caroline England and the documenting of
Elizabeth's reign by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
antiquarians such as John Nichols, who went on to compile the
monumentalThe Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823).
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