ABSTRACT
On 14 January 1559, the day before her coronation, Elizabeth I made a regal progress through the City of London, passing by a number of tableaux and pageants, and arriving eventually at Temple Bar, where she stopped in front of a tableau depicting images of Gogmagog, the giant, and Corineus, the legendary hero and giant-slayer. Earlier in her progress, as described in the pamphlet, The Queen's Majesty's Passage through the City of London (1559), Elizabeth had been presented with a tableau of the Tudor dynasty: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, and Henry VIII; and, other than this tableau, the figures represented in the procession had all been of abstractions, such as 'Wisdom' or the Beatitudes. Apart from her Tudor grandparents and father, Corineus and his giant antagonist were the only historical, or quasi-historical, figures represented to the Queen.
