1st Edition
Civic Performance Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen Part I: Civic to Global 1. ‘To the Honour of our Nation abroad’: The Merchant as Adventurer in Civic Pageantry - Tracey Hill 2. Locating the Rhinoceros and Indian: Strangers, Trade, and East India Company in Thomas Heywood’s Porta Pietatis - Amrita Sen 3. "Cleopatra in Her Barge": Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Pageants and the Production of English Cultural Capital - Sarah Crover 4. The Unspoken Language of Aliens, or the Spectacular Conversation between Visiting English and Dutch that Transcended Time and Space - Nancy J. Kay Part II: Material Encounters 5.The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor’s Show, c. 1550-1700 - Ian W. Archer 6. Arion’s Harp, Apollo’s Lute: The Instrumental Sounds of London’s Lord Mayors’ Shows - Jennifer Linhart Wood 7. Financial Encounter Customs: Tradition and Form in London’s Civic Pageantry - Jill Ingram Part III: Methodologies for Re-viewing Performance 8. The Duke of Lennox and Civic Entertainments - David M. Bergeron 9. Stephen Harrison’s The Arches of Triumph (1604) and James I’s Royal Entry in the London Literary Marketplace - J. Caitlin Finlayson 10. Musical Transformations of the City Soundscape: King James I’s Entry into London in 1604 - Katherine Butler 11. Building a Digital Geospatial Anthology of the Mayoral Shows - Janelle Jenstad and Mark Kaethler Index
Biography
J. Caitlin Finlayson is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of UGC-HRDC at the University of Calcutta, India.
