Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by McGavin John J

Author:McGavin, John J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2007-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

1 Paronomasia plays on similar sounding words, here (in Scots pronunciation), deid (dead) and deids (deeds); traductio uses the same word in its different grammatical forms, here, the participial adjective deid and infinitive die. The contemporary pronunciation of die (= [di:]) would also have associated the two rhetorical devices.

2 Bower, Scotichronicon, vol. 8, ed. D.E.R. Watt (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), p. 72. This volume will be the main source for the present chapter.

3 Gordon Kipling, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). Kipling discusses Margaret Tudor’s entry to Aberdeen, pp. 120, 311, 316–18; Mary, Queen of Scots’ entry to Edinburgh, pp. 352–6; Anne of Denmark’s Edinburgh entry, p. 115n. See also Douglas Gray, ‘The Royal Entry in Sixteenth-Century Scotland’, in The Rose and The Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, ed. Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1998), pp. 10–37; A.A. MacDonald, ‘Mary Stewart’s Entry to Edinburgh: An Ambiguous Triumph’, Innes Review, 42 (1991): 101–10; Peter Davidson, ‘The Entry of Mary Stewart into Edinburgh, 1561, and Other Ambiguities’, Renaissance Studies, 9 (1995): 416–29. Other studies are noted below where appropriate.

4 Sir Richard Maitland, The History of the House of Seytoun to the year M.D.LIX; with the continuation by Alexander Viscount Kingston, to M.D.C.LXXXVII (Glasgow: Bannatyne Club, 1829), p. 81. I discuss this passage in the ‘Afterword’ to the present volume. For sample references to schoolboy orations see REED Herefordshire. Worcestershire, ed. David N. Klausner (Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1990), pp. 430–3: one of the Worcester Cathedral scholars gave a Latin oration to the visiting Elizabeth ‘whervnto she was Attentyve & therof took verry good lykyng’ (p. 431); for similar events at Winchester College, Jane Cowling, ‘An Edition of the Records of Drama, Ceremony and Secular Music in Winchester City and College, 1556–1642’, unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Southampton, 1993, pp. 29–30. For Kerr’s account see Sir Thomas Kerr of Redden’s ‘Memorandum’ (1620), in his Notebook, National Archives of Scotland GD40/15/57, 3–34. This is the subject of my chapter ‘Thomas Kerr of Redden’s Trip to the Low Countries, 1620’, in Joyous Sweit Imaginatioun: Essays in Honour of Professor R.D.S. Jack, ed. Sarah Carpenter and Sarah Dunnigan, SCROLL (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). The text will be edited as an Appendix to the Records of Early Drama: Scotland, southeast Scotland volume.

5 Knox’s account of Mary’s entry is suffused with his dislike of the French Catholic influence which she was bringing in with her, but her chief failure of symbolic action in his view was her decision, when presented with the Bible, to hand it over to ‘the most pestilent Papist within the realm’. This man, Arthur Erskine, was one of her equerries. Knox evidently used the emblematic mode of the entry to support his symbolic reading of what was probably a practical action on Mary’s part. Croft Dickinson, John Knox’s History, vol. 2, p. 21. In practice we can assume that

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