This book offers scholars and students of literary, theatrical, and women's history the first full-length critical study of an important Renaissance genre. Country house entertainments, short plays staged for the Queen at country estates (1571â 1602), enabled men and women to engage in crucial political and literary debates in Elizabethan England.
This book offers scholars and students of literary, theatrical, and women's history the first full-length critical study of an important Renaissance genre. Country house entertainments, short plays staged for the Queen at country estates (1571â 1602), enabled men and women to engage in crucial political and literary debates in Elizabethan England.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. She has published essays on pageantry and Renaissance drama in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and elsewhere. A conference paper relating to this book won the Agnes B. Strickland Award for best paper from the Queen Elizabeth I Society in 2011. Her research has been funded by short-term residential fellowships at the Huntington Library.
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Introduction; Part I. Performance: 1. Negotiating in a 'strange Country': Theobalds, Kenilworth, and the local politics of country house performance; 2. 'Your Majesty on my knees will I followe': performing gender and the courtier-monarch relationship; 3. An 'abundance of dainties': hospitality and housewifery at Elvetham, Mitcham, and Harefield; Part II. Print: 4. 'Pleasures by a profitable publication': publishers and readers of printed entertainment; 5. 'Set this downe in English': Cowdray, Elvetham, and printed pageantry as national news; 6. 'This paper, which carieth so base names': the Sidneys, authorship, and printed pageantry as literature; Epilogue.
Introduction; Part I. Performance: 1. Negotiating in a 'strange Country': Theobalds, Kenilworth, and the local politics of country house performance; 2. 'Your Majesty on my knees will I followe': performing gender and the courtier-monarch relationship; 3. An 'abundance of dainties': hospitality and housewifery at Elvetham, Mitcham, and Harefield; Part II. Print: 4. 'Pleasures by a profitable publication': publishers and readers of printed entertainment; 5. 'Set this downe in English': Cowdray, Elvetham, and printed pageantry as national news; 6. 'This paper, which carieth so base names': the Sidneys, authorship, and printed pageantry as literature; Epilogue.
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