The Lord Mayor's Shows for the inauguration of London's mayor offered the street audience a mix of dramatic speeches, elaborate pageant devices, and a sumptuous procession, all financed and produced under the auspices of the city's livery companies and written by some of the most successful playwrights of the seventeenth century:
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