Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater

DAVID M. BERGERON is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas. He is author of numerous publications, including Practicing Renaissance Scholarship: Plays and Pageants, Patrons and Politics, English Civic Pageantry 1558–1642, and Textual Patronage and English Drama, 1570–1640.

Recreates the splendor and color of the civic celebrations for which London is still nonpareil . . . and offers philosophical interpretations and specific explications of its subject that make this handsome volume valuable for staging and study alike. One is indeed grateful for Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater, which contributes to our present understanding of the subject, points directions for further research, and testifies to the rewards of investigation in this fascinating field.