...common law,' when ' she must have been indicted in Staffordshire, have holden up her hand at the har, and been tried by a jury,' she had ' thought it better...garments; a blemish quickly noted in our doings. It beboveth us therefore to be careful that our proceedings be just and honorable. ' But I must tell you...

...For we princesses are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noted in our doing." Thus with courage Elizabeth stood upon the stage, and knew full well that it mattered not how...

...metaphor was a natural expression of such an attitude: "We princes, I tell you," said Queen Elizabeth, "are set on stages, in the sight and view of all the world duly observed." ~ James I made this a precept for his heir in his handbook of kingship, Basilifyn Doron: "A King is...

...respectful distance from it. "We princes," Elizabeth told a deputation of Lords and Commons in 1586, "are set on stages in the sight and view of all the world." 61 Royal power is manifested to its subjects as in a theater, and the subjects are at once absorbed...

...could have borrowed from the example of Elizabeth, who had once spoken of herself as set on a stage "in the sight and view of all the world duly observed." The metaphor Winthrop ultimately chose, however, was not one of a theater but of a "city upon a hill."1...

...'but as two milkmaids with pails upon our arms'; but they were not private persons - they were Princes 'set on stages, in the sight and view of all the world'. If the plot had succeeded she would have been 'loth to die so bloody a death', she said, but God would...

...Thvater in the Englith Renaissante 1Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1975i. 39 Hence Oueen Elizabeth's remark We princes . are set on stages. in the sight and view of all the world duly observed ' 1 Orgei. 1llasion 421. life The masque was an explicit statement about political reality "Every masque...

...Elizabeth, echoing Mary's words at her trial, later picked up the theatrum mundi topos, admitting that princes "are set on stages, in the sight and view of all the world dulie obserued"; it "behooveth us therefore," she noted, "to be careful that our proceedings be just...

...danger - which the public role of monarch had in common with that of the actor: 'We princes, I tel you, are set on stages, in the sight and view of all the world' (see 1.1.68 n.). Shakespeare seems nevertheless to have contrived 1 Nevertheless, seven years before...

...decades. Ever since 1975, when Stephen Orgel quoted Elizabeth I as saying "We princes, I tell you, are set on stages in the sight and view of all the world," the tendency to think of power as expressing itself in theatrical ways during the Renaissance has been...