Civic performance : pageantry and entertainments in early modern London

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Title
"Civic performance : pageantry and entertainments in early modern London"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2020
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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 wid

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