ISBN:
9781315392684
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser.
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DDC:
394.5094210903
Keywords:
Electronic books.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Civic to global -- Material encounters -- Methodologies for re-viewing performance -- Bibliography -- PART I: Civic to global -- 1. 'To the Honour of our Nation abroad': The merchant as adventurer in civic pageantry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Locating the rhinoceros and the Indian: Strangers, trade, and the East India Company in Thomas Heywood's Porta Pietatis -- Sheep, cloth, and transnational trade -- The rhinoceros and East Indies trade -- Locating the Indian -- Trade, transformation, and civic space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. 'Cleopatra in Her Barge': Anne Boleyn's coronation pageants and the production of English cultural capital -- Anne Boleyn's coronation pageants -- Coronation entry pageants: an evolving tradition -- Anne Boleyn: reshaping and destabilizing tradition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The unspoken language of aliens, or the spectacular conversation between visiting English and Dutch that transcended time and space -- 1549: The English arch and the entry of Philip II into Antwerp -- 1550-1603: The intervening years -- 1604: The Dutch arch and the entry of James into London -- Instability of authorship -- A matter of form -- Shifting loyalties -- Location, location, location -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Material encounters -- 5. The social and political dynamics of the Lord Mayor's Show, c. 1550-1700 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Arion's harp, Apollo's lute: The instrumental sounds of London's Lord Mayor's Shows -- Retuning modern ears to early modern sound/scapes -- The 1561 Lord Mayor's Show and its musicians -- "Arion with his Harpe in his hand" -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6029153
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