Online Talk: Pageants and Revels: Spectacle, Dance and the Folkloresque Past

Tue 12 Jan · Online

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Date 12 January 2027 19:00 - 20:30 Location Online talk Speaker Juliette Wood Pageants and Revels: Spectacle, Dance and the Folkloresque Past A Folklore Society Online Talk by Juliette Wood Tuesday 12 January 2027 19:00-20:30 When Prospero says at the end of The Tempest that his life in exile, and by extension the play itself, was an ‘insubstantial pageant,’ contemporary audiences would have recognised the performances to which he referred. A little more than a decade after this play was written, Ruperra Castle, a rare example of a 17th-century mock ‘pageant’ castle, was built in South Wales.

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