Reading the Royal Entry (1604) in/as Print
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https://doi.org/10.12745/et.20.1.2830Keywords:
James I, authorship, print, pageantry, Jonson, Dekker, LondonAbstract
King James I’s March 1604 entry into London, many recognize, departs from previous royal entry pageants through its use of triumphal arches, employment of professional dramatists, and emphasis on dialogue. But the 1604 entry also was notable for its essential print identity. Print records of royal entries were common by the time of Elizabeth’s accession, and the 1559 text commemorated the event mainly for the queen and court, listing no author. By contrast, James’s entry, staged and performed over one day, generated four different printed texts, each with a declared author or authors. This article considers how all four entry texts together produce a highly contested portrait of ideas about print, authorship, and authority at the outset of the Jacobean period.
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Blayney, Peter. “The Publication of Playbooks” in A New History of Early English Drama, eds. John Cox and David Scott Kastan (New York, 1997), 383-422.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, ed. Fredson Bowers. 4 vols. (Cambridge, 1955-61).
Dillon, Janette. The Language of Space in Court Performance, 1400-1625 (Cambridge, 2010).
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Greg, W.W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. 4 vols. (London, 1939).
Hackel, Heidi Brayman. Reading Material in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005).
Halazs, Alexandra. The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1997).
Harrison, Stephen. The Arch’s of Triumph. London, 1604. Early English Books Online STC 1025:16.
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Orlin, Lena Cowen, ed. Material London, ca. 1600 (Philadelphia, 2000).
Parry, Graham. The Golden Age Restor’d: the Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603-1642 (New York, 1981).
Paster, Gail Kern. “The Idea of London in Masque and Pageant,” Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater, ed. David M. Bergeron (Athens, GA, 1985).
Peters, Julie Stone. Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe (Oxford, 2000).
Pollard, A.W. “The Regulation of the Book Trade in the Sixteenth Century,” The Library, 3rd ser., 7 (1916).
Sanford, Rhonda Lemke. Map and Memory in Early Modern England: A Sense of Place (New York and Basingstoke, 2002).
Shohet, Lauren. “The Masque in/as Book,” The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England, ed. Marta Straznicky (Amherst and Boston, MA, 2006).
Smuts, Malcom, editor, “The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment” Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford, 2007.
Stock, Angela. “‘Something done in honour of the city’: Ritual, Theatre and Satire in Jacobean Civic Pageantry” Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy, eds. Dieter Miehl, Angela Stock and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Ashgate Press, 2007.
Straznicky, Marta, ed. The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England. (Boston, MA, 2006).
Taylor, Gary and John Lavagnino, eds. Thomas Middleton: The Complete Works (Oxford, 2007).
Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Ithaca, NY, 1993).
Weiss, Adrian. “Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton’s Age” Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Complete Works, eds. Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, and Trish Henley (Oxford, 2014).
Zaret, David. Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (Princeton, 2000).
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