JOHN BLANKE’S WAGES: No Business Like Show Business

• Autores: Nadia Thérèse van Pelt
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 44, 2023, págs. 3-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • John Blanke (also spelled ‘Blak’ or ‘Banke’), a Tudor court trumpeter of African descent, participated in some of the key ceremonial events of the early Tudor period. He was granted mourning livery for the funeral of Henry VII on 9 May 1509,¹ was issued with ‘scarlet’ as one of the nine ‘Kyngs Trompyttes’ for the coronation of Henry VIII on 24 June six weeks later,² and rode in the opening and closing processions at the two-day tournament organised in honour of the birth of the second Tudor’s first son Henry, Duke of Cornwall, on 12–13 February 1511. This event...