Jubilee pageant at Dudwick
Pageant type
Performances
Place: No Information (Dudwick) (Dudwick, Norfolk, England)
Year: 1935
Indoors/outdoors: Unknown
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
May 1935
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Names of composers
- Byrd, William
Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
Silver Jubilee of George V
Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
Episode 1. Introduction of Christianity (597)
Episode 2. The Danes, King Alfred (800-886)
Episode 3. Coronation of William I (1066)
Episode 4. John (Magna Carta) (1215)
Episode 5. Coming of the Weavers to Norfolk (1336)
Episode 6. Kett’s Rebellion (1549)
Episode 7. Visit of Queen Elizabeth to Norwich (1578)
Interlude
Episode 8. Charles II at Oxnead (1671)
Key historical figures mentioned
- Alfred [Ælfred] (848/9–899) king of
the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons [also known as Aelfred, the Great]
- William I [known as William the
Conqueror] (1027/8–1087) king of England and duke of Normandy
- John (1167–1216) king of England, and
lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
- Kett, Robert (c.1492–1549) rebel
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603) queen of
England and Ireland
- Charles II (1630–1685) king of
England, Scotland, and Ireland
Musical production
- William Byrd, Sellinger’s Round and
Procession
Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
- None known
Other primary published materials
- Jubilee pageant at Dudwick. Np, 1935.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Programme in Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Reference PD 160/58
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This was a village pageant held to mark the Silver Jubilee of king George V. Perhaps appropriately, given this context, the pageant paid considerable attention to royalty, featuring kings Alfred the Great, William I, John, Charles II and of course that pageant favourite queen Elizabeth I. As was the case in other Norfolk pageants, the Dudwick pageant also depicted the rebellion led by Robert Kett, which broke out in the county in 1549.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Jubilee pageant at Dudwick’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1447/