Download or read book The Court Masque written by Enid Welsford and published by Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays Masques at Court During the Reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles written by Mary Susan Steele and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press ; London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Court Masque written by David Lindley and published by Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover N.H., USA : Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death proves them all but toyes": Nashe's unidealising show / Elizabeth Cook -- "In those figures which they seeme": Samuel Daniel's Tethys' festival / John Pitcher -- Music, masque and meaning in The tempest / David Lindley -- Sounding to present occasions: Jonson's masques of 1620-5 / Sara Pearl -- To that secure fix'd state': the function of the Caroline masque form / Jennifer Chibnall -- The reformation of the masque / David Norbrook -- The present aid of this occasion': the setting of Comus / John Creaser -- Location and meaning in masque, morality, and royal entertainment / Helen Cooper -- The French element in Inigo Jones's masque designs* / John Peacock -- Dryden's Albion and Albanius: the apotheosis of Charles II / Paul Hammond.
Download or read book Plays and Masques at Court 1603 1642 written by Mary Susan Steele and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays and Masques at Court 1558 1642 written by Mary Susan Steele and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s The Tempest and the Jacobean Court Masque written by Ronald Charles Holgerson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract. The Tempest , by William Shakespeare, was presented before the Jacobean court on the evening of 1 November 1611, in the Whitehall Banqueting House. This thesis, after an analysis of the requirements of Shakespeare's text, attempts to establish the theatrical environment and staging conditions under which The Tempest was performed. At the same time, Shakespeare's purpose in writing a play for masque-like production is explored, and certain passages are explicated in the light of Shakespeare's experience with Renaissance theatre technology. Chapter One introduces the argument that Shakespeare wrote The Tempest as a result of his awareness of the principles of the Jacobean court masque. Chapter Two reviews the English masque tradition, examines the Whitehall Banqueting House as a theatre, and analyzes the new techniques of Renaissance scenic design adapted by Inigo Jones to the Jacobean court masque. Chapter Three involves a detailed compar¬ ison between The Tempest and several of the masques, in terms of their staging by Jones, in order to establish what sort of costumes, sound effects, and scenery might have been a part of the 1611 production of the play. Chapter Four is a study of the banquet-table scene, the betrothal masque, and the discovery at chess, three special moments in the play's theatrical art which reinforce the argument for a masque-like production. Chapter Five links Prospero to theatre designer • Inigo Jones and magician-scientist John Dee, in order to suggest that Shakespeare rejects the extravagant spectacle of masques as a form of theatre along with the occult powers of his hero. Thus, it is argued, Shakespeare puts theatrical art into ethical perspective. Chapter Six concludes that the theme of The Tempest as presented in the White¬ hall Banqueting House on the evening of 1 November 1611 was the true and unadorned beauty of mankind.
Download or read book Court Masques of James I written by Mary Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque written by David Bevington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Download or read book Court Masques written by David Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century. This selection of 18 masques traces the evolution of the genre from Jonson's early masques for King James I to Davenant's 1640 masque for Charles I, performed just before the outbreak of civil war. It also includes examples of entertainments performed on royal progresses, as well as one domestic masque. Court masques were extravagant multi-media happenings, imbued with often arcane allegorical programmes by writers and designers, and frequently commenting on topical political issues. In this, the most substantial available selection, readers are offered the annotation necessary to gain an understanding of the complexities of the individual texts. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University ofYork, the texts have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition to the detailed notes there is a scholarly introduction, making this edition invaluable to students of Renaissance drama and court culture.
Download or read book Court Masques written by David Lindley and published by Oxford Drama Library. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century.This selection of 18 masque for Charles I, performed just before the outbreak of civil war. It also includes examples of entertainments performed on royal progresses, as well as one domestic masque.Court masques were extravagant multi-media happenings, imbued with often arcane allegorical programmes by writers and designers, and frequently commenting on tipical political issues. In this, the most substantial available selection, readers are offered the annotation necessary for understandingthe complexities of the individual texts.Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition to the detailed notes there is a scholarly introduction, making this edition invaluable to students ofRenaissance drama and court culture.
Download or read book Masques of Difference written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masques of Difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions of monarchy, empire, and national identity were being radically redefined. All four masques reflect the royal court's self-representation as moral, orderly, and just, in contrast to stylized images of chaotically (and exotically) "othered" groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.
Download or read book The Influence of the Jacobean Masque on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher written by Suzanne Gossett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence of the Jacobean masque on the plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The author examines the ways in which the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher represent not only a great expression of human emotion, but how they are also a fine example of the growth and change of dramatic form. This title will be of interest to students of drama, literature and performance studies.
Download or read book Plays and Masques at Court 1603 1642 written by Mary Susan Steele and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Because its flexibility provided a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson was able to resolve and transcend the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of his drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Inigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. In early 1969, Yale University Press published The Complete Masques, the first one-volume edition and the most carefully edited and annotated text available. A modernized version, the 576 page Complete Masques includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson’s own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. This abridged collection contains the most important of the works included in the large edition, and Mr. Orgel’s introduction which discusses Jonson’s development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones’s development of the illusionistic stage. Mr. Orgel is associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
Download or read book The Influence of the Court Masque on Shakespeare s Last Plays written by Blanche McManus and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masque and Opera in England 1656 1688 written by Andrew R. Walkling and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of documentation survives, Walkling argues that our understanding of the distinctions between masque and opera must be premised upon a thorough knowledge of theatrical context and performance circumstances. Using extensive archival and literary evidence, detailed textual readings, rigorous tabular analysis, and meticulous collation of bibliographical and musical sources, this interdisciplinary study offers a host of new insights into a body of work that has long been of interest to musicologists, theatre historians, literary scholars and historians of Restoration court and political culture, but which has hitherto been imperfectly understood. A companion volume will explore the phenomenon of "dramatick opera" and its precursors on London’s public stages between the early 1660s and the first decade of the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Play Masques at Court written by Mary Susan Steele and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
