The Early Stuart Masque

The Early Stuart Masque
Author: Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191515981

The 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.

The Early Stuart Masque

The Early Stuart Masque
Author: Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199286590

The Early Stuart Masque studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. It will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in English drama, dance, and music of the early modern period, including scholars and students within English literature, as well as modern artists, directors, and producers.

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1998-11-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521594363

A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture

The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture
Author: Martin Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521883547

Examines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.

The Masque of Stuart Culture

The Masque of Stuart Culture
Author: Jerzy Limon
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780874133967

Limon presents an unconventional approach to the Stuart masque, discussing the masque as a form of courtly ritual rather than a truly theatrical performance. As seen from this perspective, the masque is the deepest, most complex, and many-faceted reflection of early Stuart culture.

Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England
Author: Meg Twycross
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135191930X

Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for masking, and they examine the purposes and rewards for participants in the activity. The authors' insight into the masking games and performances of England's medieval and early Tudor periods illuminates many aspects of the thinking and culture of the times: issues of identity and community; performance and role-play; conceptions of the psyche and of the individual's position in social and spiritual structures. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England presents a broad overview of masking practices, demonstrating how active and prominent an element of medieval and pre-modern culture masking was. It has obvious interest for drama and literature critics of the medieval and early modern periods; but is also useful for historians of culture, theatre and anthropology. Through its analysis of masked play this study engages both with the history of theatre and performance, and with broader cultural and historical questions of social organization, identity and the self, the performance of power, and shifting spiritual understanding.

Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts
Author: J. R. Mulryne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1993-07-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521401593

This collection of commissioned essays by established scholars, responds to critical debate on political theatre of the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Theatre is widely interpreted. The authors discuss censorship, the social implications of pageantry, Reformation ideals, popular theatre and the politics of the masque throughout the period. An early chapter discusses political theatre in the light of work by revisionist and post-revisionist historians. The drama of Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Massinger, Chapman, Heywood and Rowley is given detailed attention, while Shakespeare's plays are considered in the introductory chapter.

Reading Masques

Reading Masques
Author: Lauren Shohet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN:

Considering masques from the point of view of reception as well as production, this work illuminates intersections of elite and public culture in 17th century England. Lauren Shohet traces the ways that both courtly and non-courtly masques circulated, and rethinks what it means to "read" a masque.

Women on the Renaissance Stage

Women on the Renaissance Stage
Author: Clare McManus
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719062506

Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.