Creator
EDMUND SPENSER
Title
The Queen’s Pageants
Coverage
New Castle
Publisher
Oak Knoll Press
Date
1958
Subject
Lost following initial performances.
Description
Pageants were large entertainments, full of color, music, dance, poetry, movement, and spectacle. They were scripted and had very carefully designed emblematic meaning, especially when the Queen was involved. The scripts for Spenser’s royal pageants, collected here, cast light on The Faerie Queene and on the many ways that clever courtiers were able to complement their Queen. They are missed with the same regret as the last six books of the poem.
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