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The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

  • Editor: Bevington, David
  • Editor: Holbrook, Peter

Book

$153.00

Printed on demand

Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

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.