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Author Streitberger, W. R

Title Court Revels 1485-1559
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (473 pages)
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CONVENTIONS -- PART I -- Introduction -- 1 Early Arrangements, 1485-1503 -- 2 Later Arrangements, 1504-1509 -- 3 The Master and His Deputy, 1510-1515 -- 4 The Revels Organization, 1516-1526 -- 5 End of an Era, 1527-1534 -- 6 The Yeomen of the Revels, 1534-1543 -- 7 The Offices of the Revels and Tents, 1542-1546 -- 8 The Revels-Tents-Toils Organization, 1547-1553 -- 9 Our Master of the Revels 'for the tyme beinge, ' 1553-1559 -- Postscript: The Revels Office after 1559 -- PART II -- Calendar of Court Revels, Spectacles, Plays, and Entertainments -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Principal Sources -- Appendix 2: Playing Companies at Court -- Appendix 3: Abbots and Lords of Misrule, 1489-1553 -- Appendix 4: Officers of the Revels and of the Tents -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Streitberger details the adaptation of the Revels organization to the very different courts of the various monarchs, and explains how their personalities, principles, and policies shaped that adaptation
Notes Print version record
Subject Pageants -- England -- History -- 16th century
Amusements -- England -- History -- 16th century
Performing arts -- Production and direction -- England -- History -- 16th century
Pageants -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Chronology
Amusements -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Chronology
Performing arts -- Production and direction -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Chronology
SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Amusements
Courts and courtiers
Pageants
Performing arts -- Production and direction
Voorstellingen (uitvoerende kunsten)
Hoffeesten.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form chronologies (lists)
Chronologies
History
Chronologies.
Chronologies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442673557
1442673559