Elizabethan-era English pageantry staged mock Turkish defeats for royalty

Evidence

Bristol, England, 1613. To celebrate Queen Anne’s visit, the city stages a water-combat between a Christian ship and two Turkish galleys. After a lively mock battle, the “Turks” are brought as prisoners before the Queen, who laughingly observes that they are “not only like Turks by their apparel, but by their countenances.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 578

Categorization

• CANDY: The Queen laughing that the actors look like Turks both in costume and face is a compact, wry historical moment.
• XREF: Pairs with the Cuzco pageant — shows the same manufactured spectacle operating in England at nearly the same moment, supporting the reader’s cross-geography thesis.