The politics of the Stuart court masque
This 1998 book takes an alternative look at the courtly masque - a unique combination of music, dance, speech and elaborate costume - in early seventeenth-century England. The essays are written by experts on dance, music, visual spectacle and politics, all addressing the masque from the point of view of their speciality.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1998
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521594363, 0521594367
38144482
Introduction / David Bevington and Peter Holbrook
Courtly negotiations / Martin Butler
Upstaging the queen: the earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595 / Paul E.J. Hammer
Jacobean masques and the Jacobean peace / Peter Holbrook
The gingerbread host: tradition and novelty in the Jacobean masque / Tom Bishop
Inventing the Stuart masque / Leeds Barroll
Marginal Jonson / Stephen Orgel
Jonson, the antimasque and the 'rules of flattery' / Hugh Craig
'Rival traditions': civic and courtly ceremonies in Jacobean London / Nancy E. Wright
The Tempest and the Jacobean court masque / David Bevington
'Virgin wax' and 'hairy men-monsters': unstable movement codes in the Stuart masque / Barbara Ravelhofer
The politics of music in the masque / David Lindley
Milton's Comus and the politics of masquing / Barbara K. Lewalski
Valediction / Leah S. Marcus