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- Title
Chivalric Show of Civic Virtue: The Society of Prince Arthur's Archers.
- Authors
Brown, Felicity
- Abstract
This article explores civic pageantry's role in detaching King Arthur and aspects of the Arthurian world from the narratives of the medieval tradition by examining the Society of Prince Arthur's show, a popular event hosted by an archery fraternity in late sixteenth-century London. The processional nature of the Society's annual show, the account of the Society provided by Richard Mulcaster, and readers' annotations in copies of Richard Robinson's The Ancient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable of Prince Arthure and his knightly armory of the Round Table (1583) reveal the importance of performance in the early modern reimagining of Arthur and his knights as symbols of civic virtue. The Society's adaptations of Arthurian characters and the chivalry of the Round Table thus influence both satirical responses to chivalric literature in the period and Edmund Spenser's presentation of the Arthurian legend in The Faerie Queene (1590).
- Subjects
MULCASTER, Richard; MEDIEVAL literature; MANNERS &; customs; ANTIQUARIANS; FRATERNIZATION
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2022, Vol 73, Issue 308, p42
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgab061