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‘And afterward to his pallace of Westminster, there to solace himself’: Rediscovering the Progresses of Charles I
This article offers an overview of theroyal progressesof Charles I, featuring interdisciplinary work on the travels of the king and his court. Although literary critics and cultural historians have been enthusiastic in their work on theStuart courtsat Whitehall Palace, material on the royal progresses and the accompanying entertainments has often been ignored, both in terms of James I and particularly with respect to the progressing culture of Charles I. This article addresses this void in our knowledge by emphasizing the cultural and literary history of the progresses, focusing on the accompanyingentertainmentsin terms of their projection of aesthetics, stylistics, ephemeral architecture, and the politics ofpageantry and display.
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The History of Buildings
This chapter investigates some of the main characteristics that help to identify the age of a building and the types of construction methods used throughout the centuries. This allows the reader to understand how buildings methods have developed over time and the elements of these structures which still form part of the buildings today. It essential to understand the evolution of buildings to appreciate how the structures behave.
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Amphitheater Staging: In-the-Round or to the Front (and What About Asides)?
The author queries the new orthodoxy that assumes that Elizabethan acting companies in the public amphitheaters performed in-the-round. Theater archaeology, acting, production styles, and audience expectations are all informed by historically specific discourses. Amphitheater stages may not have been \"ideal\" performing spaces, nor were they true theaters-in-the-round, but instead they provided a compromise between arena and end staging, and some theaters at least had a definite bias toward the latter. The question of the aside is explored as it relates to actor-audience relationships and the spatial codes at work inside the Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses.
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The Architect as Furniture Designer: Bernard E Smith
Bernard Smith had a long career as an architect but in his youth he also staged a claim to be a furniture designer. Sharon Goodman explores might-have-been aspect in the life of a talented designer who was influenced by his better known contemporary, Bruce Talbert.
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A palace for an ‘English country squire’: early designs for Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire
‘Mr Gregory may be said to have accomplished one of the greatest domestic architectural works of his time; and Harlaxton will be a lasting monument to posterity of his taste and perseverance’. So wrote the noted genealogist James Burke in 1853 of Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire, the house and gardens of which, he asserted, ‘show that a plain English country gentleman of moderate fortune can erect a pile which might be envied by the greatest princes of the continent’. Harlaxton still survives as testimony to the caprice of its patron Gregory Gregory and as justification for Burke’s encomium. However, despite the splendour of the ensemble few contemporary descriptions of it survive and documentation relating to the design of the house is tantalizingly incomplete. The discovery of four previously unrecorded designs for Harlaxton is therefore of considerable importance to our understanding of this early and sophisticated mansion in the revived Jacobean taste. The newly discovered drawings are designs attributed to Anthony Salvin (1799–1881), architect of the house, and comprise pen and watercolour perspective views of the house from the north-west, south, and west, and a proposal for the staircase hall. The drawings date from c. 1831–32 and are among the earliest surviving designs for the house.
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Building, Buying, and Collecting in London, 1600–1625
Lionel Cranfield, a major London merchant engaged in the importation of Italian silks, velvets, and taffeta in the 1590s, tripled his wealth between 1598 and 1601, accumulating a net worth of £6,600.¹ As a sign of his prosperity and prospects, Cranfield decided to build in Wood Street, just off Cheapside, where he had his business. But Cranfield had problems with his builders. On 19 November 1603, Thomas Gardiner wrote of the need to finish “a botcher’s beginning:…For the columns that bear your new building must be removed one foot further outward and a new foundation made, for he hath left
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The Fateful Sukkah Meeting
Two months prior to our return to Israel, I sent Fisch the first draft of my thesis: “The Disfigured Image of Man in the Jacobean and Modern Drama.” Himself an original interpreter of texts, Fisch encouraged his students to go out on a limb in their writing. Predicated on this assumption, I had reason to believe that he would like my thesis. He greeted me in his office and we chatted awhile. Yes, he had read my first draft, but “found it a bit farfetched,” he said with a consoling smile. “Too much of a leap.” The three hundred years
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Caroline Culture: Bridging Court and Country?
A \"Court\" and \"Country\" squaring off across Stuart England is discussed with regard to the historians' approach of this time period. Perhaps historians have evaluated the cultural patronage of the first two Stuarts in polarized terms for far too long.
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