Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521594363
A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521883547
Examines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.
Author : Mary Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Masques
ISBN :
Author : David Lindley
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Courts and courtiers
ISBN : 9780192834560
The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century. This selection of 18 masques traces the evolution of the genre from Jonson's early masques for King James I to Davenant's 1640 masque for Charles I, performed just before the outbreak of civil war. It also includes examples of entertainments performed on royal progresses, as well as one domestic masque. Court masques were extravagant multi-media happenings, imbued with often arcane allegorical programmes by writers and designers, and frequently commenting on topical political issues. In this, the most substantial available selection, readers are offered the annotation necessary to gain an understanding of the complexities of the individual texts. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University ofYork, the texts have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition to the detailed notes there is a scholarly introduction, making this edition invaluable to students of Renaissance drama and court culture.
Author : Enid Welsford
Publisher : Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Enid Welsford
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300012590
The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Because its flexibility provided a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson was able to resolve and transcend the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of his drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Inigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. In early 1969, Yale University Press published The Complete Masques, the first one-volume edition and the most carefully edited and annotated text available. A modernized version, the 576 page Complete Masques includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson’s own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. This abridged collection contains the most important of the works included in the large edition, and Mr. Orgel’s introduction which discusses Jonson’s development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones’s development of the illusionistic stage. Mr. Orgel is associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
Author : Curtis Craddock
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765389614
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is Curtis Craddock's delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring a genius heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer, which Brandon Sanderson calls, "A great read!" Born with a physical disability, no magical talent, and a precocious intellect, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs has lived her life being underestimated by her family and her kingdom. The only person who appreciates her true self is Jean-Claude, the fatherly musketeer who had guarded her since birth. All shall change, however, when an unlikely marriage proposal is offered, to the second son of a dying king in an empire collapsing into civil war. But the last two women betrothed to this prince were murdered, and a sorcerer-assassin is bent on making Isabelle the third. Isabelle and Jean-Claude plunge into a great maze of prophecy, intrigue, and betrayal, where everyone wears masks of glamour and lies. Step by dangerous step, Isabelle must unravel the lies of her enemies and discovers a truth more perilous than any deception. “A setting fabulous and strange, heroes to cheer for, villains to detest, a twisty, tricky plot — I love this novel!” —Lawrence Watt Evans “A thrilling adventure full of palace intrigue, mysterious ancient mechanisms, and aerial sailing ships!” —David D. Levine At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Herbert Arthur Evans
Publisher : London, Blackie
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1909
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 1967-04-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521054553
The English court masque was one of the most extravagant and spectacular forms of entertainment ever produced, the most important period being between 1600 and 1640 when the writers included some of the best-known poets and dramatists of the age. This volume, first published in 1967, was the first selection of masques to be published in England in the twentieth century. It consists of fourteen masques, each specially edited with an introduction and commentary by a different scholar, including Ben Jonson, James Shirley, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Francis Beaumont, William Browne, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nabbes and William Davenant. Professor Gerald Eades Bentley examines the masque as Jonson conceived it and the clash that took place between Jonson and his collaborator as designer, Inigo Jones. There is also a final essay on the influence of the masque on the drama of the period. A group of 48 plates has been prepared many of them reproducing designs by Inigo Jones.
