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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Author: Shakespeare, William
Historical Figure: Elizabeth I
Historical Figure: Charles Ii

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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 Widnes, Lancashire, England
1 Kensington, Middlesex, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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 Pageant Type

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

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2 institutional
1 london
1 large town/city

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Creighton, Walter

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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3 Shakespeare, William
1 Kipling, Rudyard
1 Creighton, Walter

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 Composer

Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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1 Warlock, Peter
1 Quilter, Roger
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Nation, Oliver
1 Nation, Mrs
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Arne, Thomas

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 Historical Figure

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

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3 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
3 Elizabeth I
3 Charles II
2 William III and II
2 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
2 Shakespeare, William
2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 James VI and I
2 Hood, Robin
2 Edward IV
2 Charles I
2 Catesby, Robert
1 Æthelberht I
1 Wright, John
1 Wolfe, James
1 Winter [Wintour], Thomas
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Wentworth, Thomas, first earl of Strafford
1 Wentworth, Sir Peter
1 Wentworth, Peter
1 Victoria
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Stephen
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Savile, George, first marquess of Halifax
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Piozzi [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale], Hester Lynch
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Thomas
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Paulet, William, first marquess of Winchester
1 Parker, William, thirteenth Baron Morley and fifth or first Baron Monteagle
1 Norton, Fletcher, first Baron Grantley
1 Napoléon Bonaparte
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marvell, Andrew
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Livingstone, David
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Lenthall, William, appointed Lord Lenthall under the protectorate
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Johnstone, George
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John
1 James II and VII
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Henry VII
1 Henry V
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Harrison, Thomas
1 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Gordon, Charles George
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George IV
1 Fawkes, Guy
1 Erle [Earle], Sir Walter
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward VII
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Cook, James
1 Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Caxton, William
1 Bradshaw, John, Lord Bradshaw
1 Boswell, James
1 Bertha
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]

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