Entertainments for Elizabeth I

Woodbridge and Totowa, NJ: D. S. Brewer; Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. Cloth, 179 pages; 22 cm. Studies in Elizabethan and Renaissance culture; 2. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Introduction. The establishment of the regime; The problem of the female monarch; Early celebrations of Elizabeth; Pageantry as counsel; The message of pageantry; Elizabeth's consciousness of her cult; Classicism and mediaevalism in the cult of Elizabeth; Elizabeth as a supernatural being; Elizabeth and Arthur; Elizabethan tilts; Elizabethan progresses; The entertainment at Bisham, 1592; The entertainment at Rycote, 1592; The drawbacks of entertaining the queen; The present selection of entertainments.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.