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Stuart Civic Pageants and Textual Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David M. Bergeron
David M. Bergeron*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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Abstract

Playwrights increasingly intend the pageant texts for readers; these texts become commemorative books that both capture the event and add to it. They assume an expository and narrative function that sets them apart from the typical dramatic text. By examining the extant printed texts of Jacobean and Caroline Lord Mayor's Shows, I argue that these publications do not obliterate theatrical performance or displace it so much as they complete it. Dramatists and printers come to recognize the lasting value of textual performance in civic pageants.

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Studies
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 163 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1998

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