The Wells Cordwainers Show: New Evidence Concerning Guild Entertainments in Somerset

Stokes, James

doi:10.1353/cdr.1985.0037

Comparative Drama

1985

DOI: 10.1353/cdr.1985.0037

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The Wells Cordwainers Show: New Evidence Concerning Guild Entertainments in Somerset

James Stokes¹

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“…38 The entertainment began with a procession of the master shoemakers and a presentation of 'the shovmakers arms', 'the streamer', and 'the Gilley laste', that is, their arms, a banner, and 'a foot-shaped model and a shoe' affixed to a staff. 39 This was followed by the pageant of Crispin and Crispianus and the entire entertainment concluded with a morris dance, an element in a number of the shows for Queen Anna. The guild recorded a cast list and a full inventory of the pageant, which I quote in its entirety below:…”

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Saints' Lives and Shoemakers' Holidays: The Gentle Craft and the Wells Cordwainers' Pageant of 1613

Salvo

2016

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This essay considers the 1613 Wells Cordwainers’ pageant of SS Crispin and Crispianus through an exploration of hagiographical appropriation in two other contemporary iterations of the St Crispin legend and the conditions of English occasional pageantry. A comparison with the prose tale The Gentle Craft by Thomas Deloney and the stage play A Shoemaker, A Gentleman by William Rowley indicates that the Cordwainers improvised on a popular Jacobean version of their patron saints as romance heroes instead of holy martyrs.

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Saints' Lives and Shoemakers' Holidays: The Gentle Craft and the Wells Cordwainers' Pageant of 1613

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Ritual, Space, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century English Cathedral Cities

Estabrook

2002

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Ritual, Space, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century English Cathedral Citiesed it o r s' in t r o d u c t io n In seventeenth-century English cathedral cities, a lively and important group of urban communities during the late medieval and early modern periods, public rituals were acted out in spaces where forms of worship, bene ts of royal favor, and assertions of local authority were all contested. A close examination of these rituals in their spatial context is essential to a thorough understanding of serious disputes linking the struggle for civic autonomy to religious culture. Just as important, it provides a window onto the role of public space in the devotional, communal, and political experience of English urban dwellers during a turbulent and transitional period. Up until the outbreak of civil war in the 1640s, sacred and secular authorities appropriated one another's sites and symbols to underscore status and claim legitimacy. In the tumultuous decades leading up to civil war, cathedral of cials waged a symbolic battle to demarcate and delimit their sacred space more visibly, invoking royal adjudication to fend off the appropriation of sacred symbols by civic authorities. After the interregnum, civic authorities exerted more power over the use of cathedral spaces and symbols. Ritual was transformed and, in the process, public space and public authority were rede ned. 1 R ITU AL, SPACE, A ND AU T HOR ITYThe long history of public ritual in cathedral cities was not without its moments of tension, but the seventeenth century was a pivotal period in this regard. Centuries before the English civil wars © 2002 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.In seventeenth-century England, cathedrals were located in twenty-two urban communities, many of them county towns and administrative, economic, and cultural centers of their regions. St. Paul's and Christ Church cathedrals were subject to the unusual in uences of the metropolis and the university. Arguably, Ely, for lack of a major town, should be identi ed, along with London and Oxford, as unrepresentative of provincial cathedral cities. Bath had been subsumed by the diocese of Wells by the Reformation. Westminster was a Henrician foundation that lasted only two years. Coventry cathedral was suppressed in 1539 and not revived until 1918.

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The Ongoing Exploration of Women and Performance in Early Modern England: Evidences, Issues, and Questions

Stokes¹

2015

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Although on-going archival research continues to produce considerable evidence of performance by women in England during the Early Modern period, the perception persists that women’s performance was marginal to the culture and to the canon. This essay presents new primary source material, and offers an expanded definition of what is meant by “performance record.” The growing number of records to emerge clearly shows that performance by women was central within pre-Reformation English culture, but that the reformist effort to criminalize much of English culture (notably its performative and ceremonial features) also rendered women’s performance nearly invisible in England from the late reign of Elizabeth I through the Interregnum. The records show both a judicial effort to demonize women’s performance while theatricalizing punishment of women, on the one hand, and the rise of a cultural resistance which brought critiques of these injustices into the dramatic canon, on the other. This article argues that the near disappearance of women from public perfomance in pre-civil war England is an ideologically-constructed anomaly that needs to be addressed as part of a major re-evaluation in our understanding of the history of women and performance in Early Modern England.

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The Wells Cordwainers Show: New Evidence Concerning Guild Entertainments in Somerset

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Saints' Lives and Shoemakers' Holidays: <i>The Gentle Craft</i> and the Wells Cordwainers' Pageant of 1613

Saints' Lives and Shoemakers' Holidays: <i>The Gentle Craft</i> and the Wells Cordwainers' Pageant of 1613

Ritual, Space, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century English Cathedral Cities

The Ongoing Exploration of Women and Performance in Early Modern England: Evidences, Issues, and Questions

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