Siobhan Keenan's interdisciplinary monograph makes a substantial contribution to a surprisingly under-researched area. [...] this is an important book that establishes a foundation for other researchers to start filling in the gaps (Charles's more numerous 'minor' progresses or Henrietta Maria's separate tours), as Keenan herself recommends.

Sarah Poynting, English Historical Review

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I adds substance and subtlety to our understanding of political culture in the early Stuart period. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the notoriously fraught, ultimately fatal conversation between Charles and his people.

Andrew McRae, The Seventeenth Century

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 is the first study to focus on the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the travels and public profile of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king's progresses and Caroline progress entertainments than currently exists, this volumes throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the history opens with an introduction to the early modern culture of royal progresses and public ceremonial as inherited and practiced by Charles I. Part I explores the question of the king's accessibility further through case studies of Charles's three 'great' progresses in 1633, 1634, and 1636. Part II turns attention to royal public ceremonial culture in Caroline London, focusing on Charles's spectacular royal entry to the city on 25 November 1641. More widely travelled than his ancestors, Progresses reveals a monarch who was only too well aware of the value of public ceremonial and who did not eschew it, even if he was not always willing to engage in ceremonial dialogue with his subjects or able to deploy the propaganda power of public display as successfully as his Tudor and Stuart predecessors.
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The first study to explore the progresses of Charles I offering a full account of the king's travels. Throwing new light on Charles' accessibility to his subjects, Keenan argues that he was not as distanced as has often been argued, but was well aware of the importance of public ceremony and more widely travelled than his ancestors.
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Preface 1: Introduction: Charles I and the Culture of Royal Progresses and Public Ceremonial 2: The 'Great' Progress of 1633: Majesty, Access, and the Royal Agenda 3: The 1634 Royal Progress to the North Midlands: Cultivating the 'people who count'? 4: The 1636 Progress: Promoting Order, Discipline, and Authority II: Charles I and Royal Public Ceremonial Culture in London, 1625-1642 5: Charles I, London, and the 1641 Royal Entry Conclusion
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The first full length study of Charles I's royal progresses, processions, and royal entries Throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns Explores the part that Charles I's accessibility may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts culminating in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow Draws extensively on unpublished archival materials, including court records and private letters
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Siobhan Keenan is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she is also Associate Dean Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities. Her research focuses on early modern theatre history, regional performance culture, and royal progress entertainments. She is the author of several books, including Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England (2002) and Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London (2014), as well as the editor of two politically topical seventeenth-century manuscript plays, The Emperor's Favourite (2011) and The Twice Chang'd Friar (2017).
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The first full length study of Charles I's royal progresses, processions, and royal entries Throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns Explores the part that Charles I's accessibility may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts culminating in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow Draws extensively on unpublished archival materials, including court records and private letters
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ISBN
9780198854005
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
260

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Siobhan Keenan is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she is also Associate Dean Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities. Her research focuses on early modern theatre history, regional performance culture, and royal progress entertainments. She is the author of several books, including Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England (2002) and Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London (2014), as well as the editor of two politically topical seventeenth-century manuscript plays, The Emperor's Favourite (2011) and The Twice Chang'd Friar (2017).