Civic Performance : Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London Hardback
Edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson, Amrita Sen
Part of the Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama series
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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.
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- Pages:254 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/02/2020
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- ISBN:9781138228399
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/02/2020
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- ISBN:9781138228399