Five Elizabethan progress entertainments : an annotated modern-spelling edition / edited by Leah Scragg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Scragg, Leah, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels plays companion library

The Revels plays companion library

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 146 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Annotated modern-spelling edition.

Other Title:

5 Elizabethan progress entertainments

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English text, with passages in Latin with parallel English translations from the Latin.

Summary:

"Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a substantial introduction, the texts enable an understanding of the motives underlying not only the progress itself, but the choice of locations the monarch elected to visit and the personal and political preoccupations of those with whom she determined to stay. Selected for their diversity, the entertainments exhibit the tensions underlying some royal visits, the lavish expenditure entailed for the monarch's hosts and the overlap in terms of both material and authorship between the progress entertainments and the more widely studied products of the sixteenth-century stage."--Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1526109476

9781526109477

OCLC:

1086298431