The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

325 Pages·2007·12.36 MB·English

by  Jayne Elisabeth Archer

THE PROGRESSES, PAGEANTS, AND
ENTERTAINMENTS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
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The Progresses, Pageants,
and Entertainments of
Queen Elizabeth I
Editedby
JAYNE ELISABETH ARCHER
ELIZABETH GOLDRING
and
SARAH KNIGHT
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Preface and Acknowledgements
This volume of essays has grown out of work undertaken on the University of
Warwick’sJohnNicholsResearchProject,forwhichaneweditionofNichols’s
seminalProgressesandPublicProcessionsofQueenElizabeth(London,1788–1823)
isbeingpreparedforpublicationbyOxfordUniversityPress.Sevenoftheessays
in this collection were first presented as papers at the Elizabethan Progresses
Conference, held at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April
2004, and organized under the auspices of the Nichols Project and Warwick’s
AHRB (now AHRC) Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court
Cultures.TheConferencereceivedgeneroussupportfromtheBritishAcademy
andtheUniversityofWarwick’sHumanitiesResearchCentre.
Our deepest thanks are due to Dr Elizabeth Clarke, Director of the Nichols
Project; to Professors Julian Gardner and Steve Hindle, successive Directors of
the AHRC Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures; to
Professor Michael Whitby, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick;
and to the members of the Steering Committee of the Nichols Project, in
particularProfessorBernardCapp,DrH.NevilleDavies,MrJulianPooley,and
Dr Sarah Ross. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dr Margaret
Shewring and Professor J. R. Mulryne, former Directorsof the NicholsProject
and of the AHRC Centre, respectively. The Nichols Project was conceived
and initiated by Dr Shewring and Professor Mulryne; without their scholarly
expertise,commitment,andvision,thispublicationwouldnothavebeenpossible.
We would also like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for its
generous financial support of the Nichols Project. Finally, we are indebted to
Andrew McNeillie, Val Shelley, Tom Perridge, Christine Rode, and Elizabeth
Robottom of Oxford University Press for their unfailing patience and support
inbringingthisvolumetocompletionandtoLawrenceGreenforcompilingthe
index.
J.E.A.,E.G.,andS.K.
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Contents
NotesonContributors ix
ListofIllustrations xii
ListofMaps xiv
1. ElizabethaTriumphans 1
JayneElisabethArcherandSarahKnight
I. THE ELIZABETHAN PROGRESSES:
PATTERNS, THEMES, AND CONTEXTS
2. MonarchyinMotion:AnOverviewofElizabethanProgresses 27
MaryHillCole
3. GivingandReceivingonRoyalProgress 46
FelicityHeal
II. CIVIC AND ACADEMIC RECEPTIONS FOR QUEEN
ELIZABETH I
4. LocationasMetaphorinQueenElizabeth’sCoronationEntry
(1559):VeritasTemporisFilia 65
HesterLees-Jeffries
5. SpectatorandSpectacle:RoyalEntertainmentsattheUniversitiesin
the1560s 86
SiobhanKeenan
6. Mysteries,Musters,andMasque:TheImport(s)ofElizabethanCivic
Entertainments 104
C.E.McGee
7. PullingtheStrings:ReligionandPoliticsintheProgressof1578 122
PatrickCollinson
8. The‘I’oftheBeholder:ThomasChurchyardandthe1578Norwich
Pageant 142
DavidM.Bergeron
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III. PRIVATE RECEPTIONS FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I
9. Portraiture,Patronage,andtheProgresses:RobertDudley,Earlof
Leicester,andtheKenilworthFestivitiesof1575 163
ElizabethGoldring
10. ContestingTerms:LoyalCatholicismandLordMontague’s
EntertainmentatCowdray,1591 189
ElizabethHeale
11. ElizabethI’sReceptionatBisham(1592):EliteWomenasWriters
andDevisers 207
PeterDavidsonandJaneStevenson
12. ElizabethanEntertainmentsinManuscript:TheHarefieldFestivities
(1602)andtheDynamicsofExchange 227
GabrielHeaton
IV. AFTERLIFE: CAROLINE AND ANTIQUARIAN
PERSPECTIVES
13. ‘InthepuresttimesofpeerlessQueenElizabeth’:Nostalgia,Politics,
andJonson’suseofthe1575KenilworthEntertainments 247
JamesKnowles
14. APioneerofRenaissanceScholarship:JohnNicholsandThe
ProgressesandPublicProcessionsofQueenElizabeth 268
JulianPooley
SelectBibliographyofSecondaryCriticism 287
Index 295
Notes on Contributors
DrJayneArcherislecturer inMedieval andRenaissanceLiterature inthe Department
ofEnglish,UniversityofWales(Aberystwyth).SheisanAssociateFellowoftheCentre
fortheStudyoftheRenaissance,UniversityofWarwick,where shespentfouryearsas
AHRCpostdoctoralResearchFellowontheJohnNicholsProject.SheisGeneralEditor
ofCourtand CultureintheReignofQueenElizabethI:ANewEditionofJohnNichols’s
Progresses(OUP,forthcoming),andhaspublishedarticlesonElizabethanandJacobean
masques,earlymodernwomen’sreceiptbooks,andalchemyinearlymodernliterature.
Sheiscurrentlyworkingonabook-lengthstudyoftherelationshipbetweenhousewifery
andnaturalphilosophyinearlymodernEngland.
DavidM.Bergeron,ProfessorofEnglish,UniversityofKansas,haspublishedextensively
oncivicpageantry.Hiswell-knownbookEnglishCivicPageantry1558–1642 hasbeen
republishedinarevisededition(ArizonaStateUniversityPress,2003).Hismostrecent
book, Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570–1640 (Ashgate, 2006), focuses on
epistlesdedicatoryandaddressestoreadersindramatictexts.Hehaspublishedwidelyon
Shakespeare,Renaissancedrama,andtheStuartroyalfamily,includingKingJamesand
LettersofHomoeroticDesire (UniversityofIowaPress,1999)andPracticingRenaissance
Scholarship(DuquesneUniversityPress,2000).
Mary Hill Cole is Professor of History at Mary Baldwin College, Virginia. She is the
author of The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony (University of
Massachusetts Press, 1999), a study of the Elizabethan progresses. She has published
essays in the collections Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance (University of Delaware
Press;AssociatedUniversityPresses,1996)andElizabethI:AlwaysherOwnFreeWoman
(Ashgate, 2003). Her article ‘Maternal Memory: Elizabeth Tudor’s Anne Boleyn’ was
recentlypublishedinExplorationsinRenaissanceCulture(Summer2004).Sheiscurrently
engagedinresearchforabookonwomeninTudorEngland.
ProfessorPatrickCollinsonreadHistoryatCambridgeandcarriedoutdoctoralresearch
inLondonwhichwasthebasisofTheElizabethanPuritanMovement (Cape,1967).He
heldlectureshipsintheUniversityofKhartoumandKing’sCollege,London;andchairs
inthe universities ofSydney, Kent at Canterbury, Sheffield, andCambridge, where he
wasRegiusProfessorofModernHistory.HeisaFellowofTrinityCollege,Cambridge.
He has delivered the Ford Lectures in Oxford (published as The Religion of Protestants
(ClarendonPress,1982))andtheBirkbeckLecturesinCambridge.HeisaFellowofthe
BritishAcademy.HisnewbookwillbeFromCranmertoSancroft,acollectionofessays
onreligioninpost-ReformationEngland.
PeterDavidsonisChalmersRegiusProfessorofEnglishintheUniversityofAberdeen
andChairoftheAberdeenCentreforEarlyModernStudies.Hismostrecentpublications
areEarlyModernWomenPoets(OUP,2001),editedincollaborationwithJaneStevenson,
andTheIdeaofNorth(Reaktion,2005).