Court Revels, 1485-1559 /

Court Revels, 1485-1559 / / W.R. Streitberger.

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In 1545 Henry VIII created a Revels Office within the royal household and appointed Sir Thomas Cawarden, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, as its Master. In so doing he set a precedent for the production of revels at court for the next century. Some historians have only recently examined th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Streitberger, W.R.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (470 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 tymebeinge,' 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

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