Pageant Fever
Local History and Consumerism in Edwardian England

The first-book length study of English historical pageantry looks at the vogue for pageants that began when dramatist Louis Napoleon Parker organised the Sherborne Pageant in 1905.

CONTENTS

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1　LOUIS NAPOLEON PARKER AND HIS THEATRICAL CONTEXT

             　 THEATRE IN PARKER’S DAY

              　PARKER’S DRAMA

CHAPTER 2 　TOURISM, COMMERCIALISM AND COMMUNITY

             　 DISCOURSES OF POWER AND POLITICAL REALITY

              　LETTING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY BACK IN

CHAPTER 3   REPRESENTATION OF THE PAST: BRITONS AND ROMANS

         　    TOTAL IDENTIFICATION: PEVENSEY AND WINCHESTER

           　  NEGOTIATION BETWEEN BRITISHNESS AND ROMANNESS:

             　CHESTER, BATH AND ST. ALBANS

            　 THE ROMANS AS INVADERS

 

CHAPTER 4   REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST: TUDORS AND STUARTS

            　 TUDORS

             　　QUEEN ELIZABETH: THE ROYAL SHREW

             　　PROTESTANTISM

　             STUARTS

              ‘　BUT IS CROMWELL THERE?’

               　THE STUART MONARCHS

               　RELIGIOUS ISSUES

　　           FEEL-GOOD’ HISTORY

 

CHAPTER 5  THE PAGEANT AND LOCALITY

              ROMSEY

              OXFORD

              WINCHESTER

 

CHAPTER 6   END OF AN ERA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX