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

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

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to poli

Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and loo