Elements of performance

1 Funeral

2 Revels

4 Tournai

5 Pardon

6 Jousting

7 Arraignment

Places

Parliament Chamber, Westminster

Tournai: Port Fountayne, churche, market place

unspecified

Duration and Sequence

9 + 3 days (funeral proper)

1 evening

1 day (or part)

1 day (or part)

1 day

1 day (or part)

Date

9-11 May 1509 (funeral)

Shrove Sunday 1510

Sunday 2 October 1513

Thursday 22 May 1517

June 1517

28 May 1529

Named and ranked personnel

Bishop of Rochester, Sir Edward Howard, Garter king at arms, Treasurer, Steward, Chamberlain, Treasurer and Controller of King’s household, prelates, mourners, King’s chapel, King’s servants, mayor and aldermen, commoners

King, Queen, Essex, Wiltshire, Fitzwater, Edward Howard, Thomas Parr, Princess Mary, ambassadors, lords, ladies, gentlemen, torchbearers

King, Edward Guildford, William Fitzwilliam etc, henchmen (nobility), esquires, heralds, sergeants at arms, ladies, gentlewomen, other citizens

King, Cardinal, Norfolk, Suffolk etc, John Gelson, lords, council, mayor and aldermen, prisoners

King, Suffolk, Dorset, Essex, Surrey, Sir Edward Guildford, ambassadors, gentlemen, armourers, judges, heralds

King, Queen, Dr Sampson, Cardinal of York, legates, bishops, proctors, Queen’s council, ladies, gentlewomen

Ceremonial order

Procession: chapel and prelates, King’s servants, mourners; city religious added in front of King’s chapel, mayor and aldermen, commoners

Queen and ladies take their places `in their degrees’

King, henchmen, heralds and sergeants at arms

Order of entry implied as above

Arrivals first of King and company, then of Suffolk and company

Legates’ arrival

Numbers

9 mourners, 5 coursers, 6 lords, 3 masses

6 ladies, 2 ladies

two bands of 13 men, 125 attendants on King, 506 spears

2 legates, 4 bishops

symbolic elements

black mourning dress, chariot hangings, costuming of King’s image, display of arms

Masking costumes of other nations: Turkish, Russian, Prussian, Moorish, Egyptian

shirts, halters

letters C and M

see props

Props and lighting

chariot, hearses, image of King, crown, orb and sceptre, banners, pencels, cushions, long and short torches, tapers

swords (cimiteries), hatchets, chains, torches

`peces of warr’ (axe, spear etc), sword, canopy, staff torches

ropes, halters

lady’s sleeve on King’s helmet

Crosses, Pillers, Axes etc

Rhythm of events

last departure and feast

Withdrawal and re-entry; move from one element to the next; departure to lodgings

entry into city; entry into church; move to lodging, re-entry to market place; final departure from city to camp

King comes to W. Hall; commands prisoners to be brought forth; entry of prisoners; taking down of gallows; prayers said for King

King comes to tiltyard end; event ends with banquet and `muche pastyme’

Summoning of King and Queen; arrival of the legates; Queen’s departure

Scripted speech

Sermon; Herald’s cry for King’s soul; Herald’s cry `Vive le roy..’

King’s summoning of those to be made knights; Herald’s proclamation to citizens

King’s command; Cardinal’s reprimand to city and prisoners; prisoners’ cry for mercy; King’s pardon; Cardinal’s exhortation; (general shout?)

Summoning of King and Queen; reading of legates’ commission; summoning of King by name, then Queen; Queen’s appeal

Scripted/symbolic movement or gesture

procession; lighting of principals; breaking of staffs and casting into grave

entries; dancing

creation of knights

entry in ropes and halters; casting up of halters

entries and combat

Queen’s obeisance

Music

Dirige and mass, Placebo and Dirige, three masses, Libera Me

drum and fife, dancing

trumpets and minstrelsy, te deum

trumpets

Mix of elements

mourning, prayer, procession, mass, sermon, voidy, burial, feasting

banquet, mask (costumed entry), `mommerye’, dancing

ceremonial entry, church service, proclamation, ceremony of knighthood

jousts, banquet, `ridelles and muche pastyme’

Suddenness/novelty

King `withdrewe hym selfe sodenly out of the place’