The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment

Print, Performance and Gender

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

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This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-24
Mått150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107594920

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Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. She has published essays on pageantry and Renaissance drama in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and elsewhere. A conference paper relating to this book won the Agnes B. Strickland Award for best paper from the Queen Elizabeth I Society in 2011. Her research has been funded by short-term residential fellowships at the Huntington Library.

Introduction; Part I. Performance: 1. Negotiating in a 'strange Country': Theobalds, Kenilworth, and the local politics of country house performance; 2. 'Your Majesty 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.