John Squire: The Unknown Author of The Tryumphs of Peace, the London Lord Mayor’s Show for 1620

Finlayson, John

doi:10.1007/s11061-010-9197-1

Neophilologus

2010

DOI: 10.1007/s11061-010-9197-1

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John Squire: The Unknown Author of The Tryumphs of Peace, the London Lord Mayor’s Show for 1620

John Finlayson

Abstract: 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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“… The author is John Squire, who wrote The Tryumphs of Peace (1620). For a study of this show, see Finlayson, ‘John Squire’ 531–39.…”

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The Lord Mayor's Show in Early Modern London

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The Lord Mayor's Show – a lavish entertainment organised yearly to celebrate the oath of the new mayor – became a key event in London civic life between the 1580s and the late 1630s, involving such authors as Thomas Middleton, Thomas Heywood, Anthony Munday, John Webster and Thomas Dekker. This essay provides a survey of the most important literature concerning the early modern Lord Mayor's Shows, their historical development as a dramatic form, their ceremonial role, their textual dimension and their symbolic representation of London's political life.

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“… The author is John Squire, who wrote The Tryumphs of Peace (1620). For a study of this show, see Finlayson, ‘John Squire’ 531–39.…”

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Jacobean Foreign Policy, London’s Civic Polity, and John Squire’s Lord Mayor’s Show, The Tryumphs of Peace (1620)

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John Squire’s London Lord Mayor’s show has generally been undervalued as a largely typical example of the genre, formulaic in its deployment of traditional themes, characters, and devices. This article argues that Squire’s The Tryumphs of Peace is in actuality radically different from the typical pattern of Lord Mayor’s shows in directly commenting on an immediate, national political crisis. It is not just a traditional paean to the livery companies’ good government of London, but instead lauds James I’s role as peacemaker in both internal and external politics, using James’s image as a peace-maker as its central focus (and a material pageant device). This is not simply a tribute; rather it has immediate, pressing political significance in 1620 because of the imminent possibility that England might become engaged in the existing religious and dynastic struggles of the Netherlands and parts of the German states during the Thirty Years’ War. The Tryumphs of Peace presents the voice of an influential movement in the merchant class to urge James to continue in his role as peacemaker by avoiding direct conflict, and it presents a counterpoint to support for intervention at the royal court and among members of Parliament.

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John Squire: The Unknown Author of The Tryumphs of Peace, the London Lord Mayor’s Show for 1620

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The Lord Mayor's Show in Early Modern London

The Lord Mayor's Show in Early Modern London

Jacobean Foreign Policy, London’s Civic Polity, and John Squire’s Lord Mayor’s Show, The Tryumphs of Peace (1620)

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