Fêting the Queen: Civic Entertainments and the Elizabethan Progress

376 Pages·2021·14.153 MB·English

by  John M Adrian

FÊTING THE
QUEEN
Civic Entertainments and
the Elizabethan Progress
JOHN M. ADRIAN
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FÊTING THE
QUEEN
a volume in the series
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
edited by
Arthur Kinney
FÊTING THE
QUEEN
Civic Entertainments
and the
Elizabethan Progress
JOHN M. ADRIAN
University of Massachusetts Press
Amherst and Boston
Copyright © 2021 by University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978- 1- 62534-6 29- 2 (paper); 628- 5 (hardcover)
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Cover design by Rebecca Niemark, Twenty-Six Letters
Cover art by T. Allon, detail of The Festivities at Kenilworth in Honour of
Queen Elizabeth, c. 1575. From the publication Warwick Castle and Its Earls: From
Saxon Times to the Present Day, by Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville,
published by E.P. Dutton, 1903. Flickr/Wikimedia Commons.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Adrian, John M., 1975–a uthor.
Title: Fêting the queen : civic entertainments and the
Elizabethan
progress / John M. Adrian.
Description: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts
Press, [2021] |
Series: Massachusetts studies in early modern culture | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021016897 (print) | LCCN 2021016898
(ebook) | ISBN
9781625346285 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781625346292 (paperback) | ISBN
9781613769058 (ebook) | ISBN 9781613769041 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Elizabeth I, Queen of England,
1533– 1603— Travel— England.
| Great Britain— History— Elizabeth, 1558– 1603. | England— Social life
and customs— 16th century. | Processions—E ngland— History—1 6th
century. | Festivals— England— History— 16th century. |
Hospitality— England— History— 16th century. | Visits of
state— England— History— 16th century.
Classification: LCC DA356 .A37 2021 (print) | LCC
DA356 (ebook) | DDC
942.05/5— dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016897
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016898
British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Chapter 2 was previously published as “‘A supplicacion for the Havon’: Sandwich, Civic Pageantry, and
Queen Elizabeth I’s Visit of 1573,” in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 43, no. 1 (May 2017): 30– 55.
Chapter 4 was previously published as “‘Warlike pastimes’ and the ‘sottell Snaek’ of Rebellion: Bristol,
Queen Elizabeth, and the Entertainments of 1574” in Studies in Philology, 111, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 720– 37.
Used by permission.
To my girls, Wendy and Isabella
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER ONE
OXFORD, 1566
43
CHAPTER TWO
SANDWICH, 1573
99
CHAPTER THREE
CANTERBURY, 1573
121
CHAPTER FOUR
BRISTOL, 1574
161
CHAPTER FIVE
WORCESTER, 1575
185
CHAPTER SIX
NORWICH, 1578
217
CONCLUSION
269
Notes 291
Bibliography 333
Index 345
vii
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