The Coronation Triumph
The Coronation Triumph is a
The entertainment "confusingly goes by several names"[1] – including The King's Entertainment, and Part of the King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation. Under the latter title, Jonson's work was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 March 1604 and published later that year along with another of his Stuart entertainments, The Entertainment at Althorp, in a quarto printed by Valentine Simmes for the bookseller Edward Blount. The work was reprinted in the first folio collection of Jonson's works in 1616, and was included in the collected works thereafter. (Dekker's portion, which included contributions from Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and Stephen Harrison,[2] was published separately in the same year, as The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James.)
Jonson's text is dominated by a range of mythological figures (
Jonson's first attempt to win royal patronage had not been a success: his play , Jonson was the primary author of masques for the Stuart Court.
References
- ^ Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977; p. 84.
- ^ Heather Anne Hirschfeld, Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theatre, Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004; p. 165.
- E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 391.