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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
Dover Castle Pageant
Dover had had a large pageant in 1908, organised by Louis Napoleon Parker. The town revived the tradition in 1983 after Michael McFarnell, a local hotelier, was given a copy of the original book of...

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Place: Dover, Kent, England
Historical Figure: Henry Viii

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2 Dover, Kent, England

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Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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2 town

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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 McFarnell, Mike

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rhoades, James
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Geddes, H.R.

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1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tidnam, J. Edis
1 Taylor, H.J.
1 Gibbons, Orlando

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Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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2 Henry VIII
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Stigand
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mary I
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 John
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Henry V
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Giffard, Walter
1 Fordham, John
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Eustace
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles VI
1 Charles V
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Arthur

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