page_title: The Hue and Cry After Cupid
section_title: The source
hierarchical_section_title: The Hue and Cry After Cupid / The source
caption_attribution_description: English: The Book of old English songs and ballads
context_page_description: The Hue and Cry After Cupid, or A Hue and Cry After Cupid, also Lord Haddington's Masque or The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage, or even The Masque With the Nuptial Songs at the Lord Viscount Haddington's Marriage at Court, was a masque performed on Shrove Tuesday night, 9 February 1608, in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. The work was written by Ben Jonson, with costumes, sets, and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones, and with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco — the team of creators responsible for previous and subsequent masques for the Stuart Court.
context_section_description: The masque adapts a tale from the Idyll of the Ancient Greek pastoral poet Moschus. the Idyll was extremely popular during the Renaissance and was known in various French and Italian adaptations; the actual version that Jonson employed for his text is uncertain.
caption: Illustration by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
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