Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments: From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson
Author:   Gabriel Heaton (, Deputy Director, Department of Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby's)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199213115


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   17 June 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments: From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson


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Author:   Gabriel Heaton (, Deputy Director, Department of Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby's)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780199213115


ISBN 10:   0199213119
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   17 June 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Elizabethan Entertainments I: The Queen and the Hermit: the Tale of Hemetes II: Armed Address: the Elizabethan tournament III: Publishing Praise: the circulation of Elizabethan entertainment texts From Elizabethan to Jacobean Part II: Ben Jonson and the Jacobean Court IV: Negotiating Gifts: the 1607 entertainment at Merchant Taylors' Hall V: Revision and Sociability: the 1607 entertainment at Theobalds VI: The Jacobean Masque: Jonson, authorship, and royal address Conclusion: Selling Entertainments Bibliography

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Heaton works with tact and skill The Library


Written in eloquent and assure prose. Tracey Hill, Journal of British Studies Heaton works with tact and skill The Library


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Gabriel Heaton was born and grew up in London. He took his first degree at the University of Durham, and obtained his doctorate from Cambridge in 2003. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick, editing Elizabethan entertainments and related texts for Court and Culture in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of John Nichols's Progresses. He is also the author of a number of articles on subjects including entertainments, libels, and the poet Aurelian Townshend. Dr Heaton currently works in the Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, where he is a Deputy Director specialising in post-Medieval English manuscripts.

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