Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London. Amrita Sen and J. Caitlin Finlayson, eds. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama 6. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. xiv + 254 pp. $160.

Abstract

In the third and fi nal part, “ Methodologies for Re-viewing Performance, ” the essays model different approaches for investigating civic spectacles. David M. Bergeron shifts the scale of analysis. Rather than looking at a speci fi c occasion or type of event, Bergeron traces out over years the various roles played in civic displays by a single person. J. Caitlin Finlayson examines the translation and circulation of ephemeral architecture in print while Katherine Butler reconstructs soundscapes through texts to access something of the lived experience of festivals. Finally, Janelle Jenstad and Mark Kaethler present a digital geospatial tool that enables users to visualize London ’ s pageants within their dynamic urban contexts. Together these contributions push the study of early modern festivals to consider a fuller range of objects, actors, spaces