Civic Pageantry Research Articles

Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy

Sydney Anglo discusses every English royal entry, festival, disguising, masque, and tournament from the accession of Henry VII to the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth I. Based principally on primary sources, his study is analytical rather than descriptive. In 1969, when this book first appeared, the serious study of Renaissance court festivals and civic pageantry was in its infancy and - although the subject has since burgeoned - the volume of publications relevant to the early Tudors was modest and largely confined to matters of detail. In this new edition Professor Anglo discusses material published since 1969 in a preface where, as far as possible, the material is arranged according to the chronological and thematic order of the book. The original pagination and notes which have regularly been cited by scholars has thereby been retained. A bibliography of works cited in the text has been added to facilitate the work of a new generation of students.

Venetian State Papers and English Civic Pageantry, 1558-1642

Attempting to recover what has been a largely ignored and vastly overlooked subject in theater history, Professor Glynne Wickham has demonstrated the importance of the study of civic pageantry as a natural part of the evolution of English drama. Wickham makes a most persuasive case for the significance of these dramatic entertainments as they contribute both technically and thematically to the regular stage of the English Renaissance, and he shows clearly that the whole subject is in need of further exploration in order to counter the neglect it has received at the hands of many scholars. Civic pageantry, as Wickham defines it and as I use the term, refers of course to planned dramatic entertainments, not just color or spectacle, designed to honor the sovereign or magistrate on special occasions. Generally, there are three kinds of pageants: royal entries of the sovereign, the sovereign's provincial progresses, and the annual Lord Mayor's Show in London.

Symbolic Landscape in English Civic Pageantry

Professor Erwin Panofsky in Studies in Iconology points to a particular device, ‘common in late-mediaeval and Renaissance painting,’ that ‘of dividing the landscape background into halves of symbolically contrasting character.’ This technique, Panofsky says, was 'frequent in religious pictures where the “Aera sub lege” is contrasted with the “Aera suh gratia,” ’ but it was by no means confined to sacred pictures as Panofsky goes on to illustrate. In particular he discusses the picture, ‘Hercules at the Crossroads,’ generally attributed to Niccolò Soggi, in the light of this symbolic device. The purpose of this paper is to show how this technique common to Renaissance art also found expression in a dramatic form, that of civic pageantry, in late Tudor and early Stuart England.

The Christmas Family: Artificers in English Civic Pageantry

By this time Imagine that Poets (who drawe speaking Pictures) and Painters (who make dumbe Poesie) had their heads and hands full; the one for natiue and sweet Inuention: the other for liuely Illustration of what the former should deuise: Both of them emulously contending (but not striuing) with the proprest and brightest Colours of Wit and Art, to set out the beautie of the great Triumrpzant-day.l

The First Progress of Henry VII

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe First Progress of Henry VIIJOHN C. MEAGHERJOHN C. MEAGHER Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Renaissance Drama Volume 11968Essays Principally on Masques and Entertainments Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/rd.1.41917408 Views: 15Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright © 1968 Northwestern University PressPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kim Gilchrist “The wonder is, he hath endured so long”: King Lear and the Erosion of the Brutan Histories, Shakespeare 16, no.11 (Feb 2019): 40–59.https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1561503Anne Lancashire Civic Pageantry Including Royal Entries, (Aug 2017): 1–6.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb388Philip Schwyzer Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales, 13 (Dec 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483950K. J. Kesselring Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State, 1 (Jul 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495854 Mary C. Erler Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy, Renaissance Quarterly 48, no.11 (Sep 2015): 58–81.https://doi.org/10.2307/2863321

The Emblematic Nature of English Civic Pageantry

The Emblematic Nature of English Civic Pageantry

Middleton's Civic Employments

Previous articleNext article No AccessMiddleton's Civic EmploymentsR. C. BaldR. C. Bald Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 31, Number 1Aug., 1933 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/388071 Views: 1Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Great Civic and Peace Pageant

A Great Civic and Peace Pageant