Essays principally on masques and entertainments
By: edited by S. Schoenbaum.
Contributors: Schoenbaum, S. 1927-
Series: Renaissance drama -- new ser., 1; Renaissance drama (Evanston, Ill.) -- new ser., 1.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Masques; Pageants; Festivals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of the early Tudor disguising, pageant, and mask / Sydney Anglo; title: The first progress of Henry VII / John C. Meagher; title: Lyly's static drama / Michael R. Best; title: The triumph of chastity: form and meaning in the Arraignment of Paris / Andrew Von Hendy; title: The Helmingham Hall manuscript of Sidney's The lady of May: a commentary and transcription / Robert Kimbrough and Philip Murphy; title: To make boards to speak: Inigo Jones's stage and the Jonsonian masque / Stephen Orgel; title: Jonson's early entertainments: new information from Hatfield House / Scott McMillin; title: The emblematic nature of English civic pageantry / David M. Bergeron; title: Form and themes in Henri II's entry into Rouen / Margaret M. McGowan; title: Caldern̤, Cosme Lotti, Velz̀quez, and the Madrid festivities of 1636-1637 / J.E. Varey; title: The plague, the theater, and the poet / Ann Haaker; title: Review article: "The eloquence of masques": a retrospective view of masque criticism / Inga-Stina Ewbank; title: Reviews: Maynard Mack, King Lear in our time ; William R. Elton, King Lear and the gods / Kenneth Muir.