The Court masque
By: edited by David Lindley.
Contributors: Lindley, David, 1948-
Series: The Revels plays companion library
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Brand: Manchester Univ Pr; Manchester Univ Pr
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Manchester [Greater Manchester]; Dover N.H., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Masques -- History and criticism.; Theater and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Platonists -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "Death proves them all but toyes": Nashe's unidealising show / Elizabeth Cook -- "In those figures which they seeme": Samuel Daniel's Tethys' festival / John Pitcher -- Music, masque and meaning in The tempest / David Lindley -- Sounding to present occasions: Jonson's masques of 1620-5 / Sara Pearl -- To that secure fix'd state': the function of the Caroline masque form / Jennifer Chibnall -- The reformation of the masque / David Norbrook -- The present aid of this occasion': the setting of Comus / John Creaser -- Location and meaning in masque, morality, and royal entertainment / Helen Cooper -- The French element in Inigo Jones's masque designs* / John Peacock -- Dryden's Albion and Albanius: the apotheosis of Charles II / Paul Hammond.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [185]-194.
Includes index.