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Gesta Grayorum Or The History Of The High And Prince, Henry Prince Of Purpoole, Arch-Duke Of Stapulia And Bernardia, Duke Of High And Nether Holborn, Marquis Of St. Giles And Tottenham, Count Palatine

Francis Davison / Henry Helmes

A lost pageant of Elizabethan spectacle, restored for modern eyes.Francis Davison’s Gesta Grayorum is a lively renaissance historical account that casts fresh light on ritual and revelry in early modern England. It bristles with theatrical detail. The flamboyant title, which names a Prince of Purpoole among arch-dukes and marquises, hints at satire, ceremony and the distinctive...

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Gesta Grayorum Or The History Of The High And Prince, Henry Prince Of Purpoole, Arch-Duke Of Stapulia And Bernardia, Duke Of High And Nether Holborn, Marquis Of St. Giles And Tottenham, Count Palatine

Francis Davison / Henry Helmes

Gesta Grayorum returns a vanished night of ceremony and mock rule from the heart of late Tudor London. It crackles with courtly satire. First printed in A.D. 1594, this contemporary account of Gray’s Inn revels preserves the ceremonials, parodies and stagecraft of Elizabethan court pageantry and the English masque tradition while registering the comic contradictions of legal li...

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