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Author: Martin Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521883547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521594363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author: Enid Welsford
Publisher: Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Knowles
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1137432012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780520025059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Author: Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-04-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0191515981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, the book elucidates professional ballet, theatre management, and dramatic performance at the early Stuart court. Individual studies take a fresh look at works by Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Carew, John Milton, William Davenant, and others, showing how court poets collaborated with tailors, designers, technicians, choreographers, and aristocratic as well as professional performers to create a dazzling event. Based on extensive archival research on the households of Queen Anne and Queen Henrietta Maria, special chapters highlight the artistic and financial control of Stuart queens over their masques and pastorals. Many plates and figures from German, Austrian, French, and English archives illustrate accessibly-written introductions to costume conventions, early dance styles, male and female performers, the dramatic symbolism of colours, and stage design in performance. With splendid costumes and choreographies, masques once appealed to the five senses. A tribute to their colourful brilliance, this book seeks to recover a lost dimension of performance culture in early modern England.
Author: Aileen Ribeiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0300109997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelatively few garments survive from before the eighteenth century, and the history of costume in the preceding centuries must therefore rely to a great extent on literary and visual evidence. This book, the first of its kind, examines Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense political, social, and cultural change. Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources--poetry, drama, essays, sermons--the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images, she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how it related to Stuart England’s cultural climate.
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0521650682
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Author: Linda Levy Peck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-13
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521021043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew interpretations of Jacobean court culture by an international group of specialists.
Author: Kevin Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521386616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings. Kevin Sharpe questions the assumptions on which these evaluations have been based. Challenging the traditional argument for a polarity between court and country cultures in early Stuart England, he re-reads the plays, poems and masques as primary documents of political attitudes articulated at court. Far from being confined to a decade or a party, the courtly literature of the 1630s is relocated within the broader humanist tradition of counsel. Through the language of love - a language, it is argued, that was part of the discourse of politics in Caroline England - the court poets criticised fundamental premises of the King's political ideology, and counselled traditional and moderate modes of government.
