The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
- Editor: Bevington, David
- Editor: Holbrook, Peter
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- 1. Introduction David Bevington and Peter Holbrook
- 2. Courtly negotiations Martin Butler
- 3. Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595 Paul E. J. Hammer
- 4. Jacobean pacifism and Jacobean masques Peter Holbrook
- 5. The gingerbread host: tradition and novelty in the Jacobean masque Tom Bishop
- 6. Inventing the Stuart masque Leeds Barroll
- 7. Marginal Jonson Stephen Orgel
- 8. Jonson, the antimasque and the 'rules of flattery' Hugh Craig
- 9. 'Rival traditions': civic and courtly ceremonies in Jacobean London Nancy E. Wright
- 10. The Tempest and the Jacobean court masque David Bevington
- 11.'Virgin wax' and 'hairy men-monsters': unstable movement codes in the Stuart masque Barbara Ravelhofer
- 12. The politics of music in the masque David Lindley
- 13. Milton's Comus and the politics of masquing Barbara K. Lewalski
- 14. Valediction Leah S. Marcus
- Index.