Stuart masques and the Renaissance stage.
Subtitle: With 197 illus.
Publisher: B. Blom
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Stuart, House of; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652; Masques -- History and criticism; Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery; Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Renaissance -- England
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: This insubstantial pageant. The body and soul of masque -- The masquing show -- The banqueting house. Royal patronage -- Courtly toys -- The masquing hall -- The auditorium -- The dancing place -- The stage -- The audience -- The curtain -- The proscenium arch -- The prospectives. Dispersed settings : the vision of the Twelve Goddesses and Lord Haj’s Masque -- Concentrated settings: The Masque of Blackness -- Changing scenes: Italian intermezzi -- Periaktoi : The Masque of Hymen -- The Masque of Beauty and The Masque of Queens -- Tethys’ Festival -- The Masque of Oberon and The Lords’ Masque -- The Middle Temple Masque -- The Masque of the Inner Temple -- Somerset’s Masque -- The Masque of Flowers, Mercury Vindicated, and Browne’s Masque -- The Vision of Delight, Lovers made Men, and Pleasure reconciled to Virtue -- Time Vindicated, Neptune’s Triumph, and Love’s Triumph -- Chloridia -- Albion’s Triumph -- Tempe Restored -- The Shepherd’s Paradise -- The Triumph of Peace -- Cælum Britannicum -- Comus and The Temple of Love -- Florimène -- The Triumphs of the Prince d’Amour -- Britannia Triumphans -- Luminalia -- Salmacida Spolia -- Chariots of triumph and diaphanal glasses. Triumphal chariots -- Lighting effects -- The gaudy scenes. Strode and Cartwright -- Nabbes and Brome -- Stage directions in plays -- The Queen of Aragon and The Passionate Lovers -- Settings for a play at court -- Court hieroglyphicks. Emblems and imprese -- Eternity and the stars -- Sleep and dreams -- The elements : airy spirits -- Spirits of fire, earth, and water -- The forces of nature -- The revellers -- Heroic virtue -- The world of order -- The world of discord -- Omnium fere gentium... Rome and Greece -- The East and the West -- From courtiers to cooks -- Wizards and witches -- Wild men and grotesques -- Knights of Apollo. The masquers -- The torch-bearers -- Appendix: list of masques (1603-41).