The Elizabethan country house entertainment : print, performance and gender /
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2016 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781107594920 1107594928 |
Index Number: | PN2589 |
CLC: | J809.561 |
Call Number: | J809.561/K813 |
Contents: | Part I Performance; 1 Negotiating in a "strange country": Theobalds, Kenilworth, and the Local Politics of Country House Performance; 2 "Your Maiesty 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: The Genre's Afterlives in Stuart England. |