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Copyright 2021 by Michael Blanding
Maps copyright 2020 by Bier en Brood
Cover design by Richard Ljoenes
Cover images: Private Collection PhotoRafael Valls Gallery, London, UK/
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Image Credits: Maps by Bier en Brood. The Dial of Princes photographs of signature and marginalia by Michael Blanding, reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Library. Cambridge University Library. Photograph of Sir Thomas Norths journal by Michael Blanding, courtesy of the British Library, London, UK The British Library Board. Photograph of Dennis McCarthy by Cody OLoughlin. Woodcut of Arden of Faversham, Private Collection/Bridgeman Images. Portrait of Edward 1st Baron North, courtesy of P. Pattenden/The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse. Portrait of Roger 2nd Baron North, Private Collection, Photograph Christies Images/Bridgeman Images. Illustration of Kirtling Hall, courtesy of the British Library, London, UK British Library Board, All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images. Photograph of Sir Thomas Norths journal, describing his visit to Mantua, by Michael Blanding, courtesy of Lambeth Palace Library. Photographs of wax statues at Santuario Beata Vergine Maria delle Grazie, Curtatone, Italy, by Michael Blanding. Photographs of Giulio Romano, Noble Banquet / Rustic Banquet, Chamber of Cupid and Psyche, Palazzo Te, courtesy of Scala/Art Resource, NY. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, courtesy of the National Gallery, London, UK, Photo Photo Josse/Bridgeman Images. Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Photo Stefano Baldini/Bridgeman Images. Photograph of June Schlueter by Michael Blanding. Portrait of William Shakespeare, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London, UK/Bridgeman Images. The Ass Talks to the Mule by Michael Blanding, courtesy of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Portrait of Hercule-Franois Valois, Duke of Alenon, courtesy of Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, USA. Portrait of Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, courtesy of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, UK, National Trust Photographic Library/Bridgeman Images. Illustration of Kenilworth Castle, courtesy of Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, UK Historic England/Bridgeman Images. Photograph of Kenilworth Castle by Michael Blanding.
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ISBNs: 978-0-316-49324-6 (hardcover), 978-0-316-49328-4 (ebook)
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I t was the greatest party of Elizabeths reignnineteen days of gut-busting feasts, minstrel performances, bear-baiting, Italian acrobats, and jaw-dropping fireworks. All of it was designed for a single purpose: to woo a queen. When Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, planned the festivities at his estate of Kenilworth Castle in July 1575, he was getting desperate. After fifteen years of vying for Queen Elizabeths hand, he was no closer to a promise of marriage than when hed begun.
The Kenilworth festival was his last-ditch attempt at winning the queens affections, and Leicester spared no expense to impress her, spending lavishly on new gardens, gifts, and performances. As the party raged, nobles and gentry from across the realmas well as commoners from the countrysideguzzled forty barrels of beer and sixteen barrels of wine a day as they pursued wanton encounters in the surrounding woods and fields. Leicester kept his eyes on the queen, anxiously watching for signs that she was enjoying the elaborate masques and other entertainments he had dreamed up in her honor.
On several nights, Leicester unleashed firework displays created by an Italian pyrotechnician over a man-made lake that lapped against the western wall of the castle. The spectacles lasted for hours, including dazzling dragons, fighting dogs and cats, and rockets that seemed to shoot out of the water itself. A contemporary observer described them as a blaze of burning darts, flying to and fro, leams of stars coruscant, streams and hail of fiery sparks of such intensity that the heavens thundered, the waters surged, the earth shook.
Another night, the earl staged a giant water pageant as Elizabeth was making her way across a long bridge over the lake. An actor dressed as the sea-god Triton rode across the water to her on a mechanical mermaid. Sounding a trumpet in the shape of a whelk, he commanded the seas to still, shouting: You waters wild, suppress your waves and keep you calm and plain! After his speech, another actor dressed as the fabled Greek musician Arion serenaded her from atop a twenty-four-foot-long mechanical dolphin. Music emanated eerily from the dolphins belly, where an ensemble of musicians had been secreted inside.
Theres no record of how the queen received the performancewhether she stood stony-faced, or smiled and clapped with joy, or felt a rise of love in her heart for the man who had gone to such extravagant lengths to please her. But the moment has been immortalized, after a fashion, in William Shakespeares most beloved play, A Midsummer Nights Dream. In one scene, Oberon, King of the Fairies, reminisces to his underling Puck while in a jealous fit over the Fairy Queen Titania. Thou remembrest since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphins back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath that the rude sea grew civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from their spheres to hear the sea-maids music? he says to Puck. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, flying between the cold moon and the earth Cupid, all armed. A certain aim he took at a fair vestal thrond by the west, and loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
For more than a century, those lines have been read as an allusion to Leicester, who shot a love arrow at his own vestalEnglands famous Virgin Queen Elizabethat a pageant complete with dolphin, mermaid, and fireworks. Its less clear how Shakespeare, then a boy eleven years old, could have witnessed the spectacle; or why he would have included it in a play written around 1595, some twenty years after the event. In his book
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