The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
Contributors: David Bevington (Editor); Peter Holbrook (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780521031202
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; Eastern Europe; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Essays; English drama--17th century--History and crit; English drama--17th century--History and criticism; Literary Collections-Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Eastern European
First sentence: Masques were often dismissed as mere trifles of entertainment during the Jacobean years when that genre experienced its most remarkable development.