- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1st Edition edition (17 Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199213119
- ISBN-13: 978-0199213115
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,686,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This major new study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including country house entertainments, tiltyard speeches, and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the evidence provided by the surviving material texts. Drafts, royal presentation manuscripts, widely-circulating scribal copies, and printed pamphlets are all carefully placed in their cultural context, and the medium of manuscript is shown to have been at least as important as print for these texts' circulation. From the close collaboration between commissioning host and hired writer, to the varied interpretations imposed by copyists and publishers, entertainments were written and read within a complex social nexus: far from being royal propaganda, they reflected the distinct and sometimes competing agendas of monarchs, commissioning hosts, authors, publishers, scribal intermediaries, and readers. Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments explores this interpretative community through a range of texts. The first part of the book looks at Elizabethan entertainments: the Woodstock entertainment of 1575 (Chapter I); tiltyard speeches (Chapter II); and the distinctive features of printed pamphlets and scribal copies, notably of the 1602 Harefield entertainment (Chapter III). The second part of the book is mostly concerned with Ben Jonson's work for the Jacobean court, with chapters on the Merchant Taylors' entertainment (Chapter IV) and the Theobalds' entertainment (Chapter V). The final chapter looks at the texts of court masques, especially in the light of Jonson's understanding of the poet's elevated role. The book's conclusion takes the story of these material texts beyond the early modern period and looks at how they have been collected, bought, and sold over the centuries.
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The Elizabethan age was a turning point in patronage of the arts. Some of the beneficiaries are well known: Shakespeare on the stage, and pictorial artists following in the wake of Holbein such as van Dyke and Rubens.
What Heaton does, in absorbing style, is tease out from the manuscript sources the manifestation of this same phenomenom in the more conservative context of courtly entertainment.
Nor does the book conveniently stop there: the second half of the book follows the changing values attributed to these works:
"If the manner in which these texts passed from one person to another - as a gift from an author to a prince, as an enclosure in a letter, or as a puchase in the marketplace - reveals how those texts were valued and understood at the particular moment of exchange, then the later circulation of those same texts can tell us something about their changing value, and about the later understanding of early modern entertainment culture."
A good read, and will be of great interest to the commited bibliophile, the informed collector and the scholar for whom they hold an enduring fascination.
What Heaton does, in absorbing style, is tease out from the manuscript sources the manifestation of this same phenomenom in the more conservative context of courtly entertainment.
Nor does the book conveniently stop there: the second half of the book follows the changing values attributed to these works:
"If the manner in which these texts passed from one person to another - as a gift from an author to a prince, as an enclosure in a letter, or as a puchase in the marketplace - reveals how those texts were valued and understood at the particular moment of exchange, then the later circulation of those same texts can tell us something about their changing value, and about the later understanding of early modern entertainment culture."
A good read, and will be of great interest to the commited bibliophile, the informed collector and the scholar for whom they hold an enduring fascination.
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