The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

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.