Elizabethan Triumphal Processions

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Until now, scholarly analysis of Elizabethan processions has always regarded them as having been successful in their function as propaganda, and has always foun

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

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More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and a

The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment

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This book analyses how country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted identities.

Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

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Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays

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Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli’s writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable