Stuart Masque Research Articles

:The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture

1. Introduction R. Malcolm Smuts 2. England's troubles, 1603-1702 Jonathan Scott 3. The ancient constitution reassessed: the common law, the court and the languages of politics in early modern England Johann Sommerville 4. The invention of Britain and the early Stuart masque Martin Butler 5. Art and the material culture of kingship in early Stuart England R. Malcolm Smuts 6. The Hector of Germanie, or the Palsgrave, Prime Elector and Anglo-German relations of early Stuart England: the view from the popular stage Hans Werner 7. Old English honour in an evil time: aristocratic privilege in the 1620s Richard C. McCoy 8. The theatre of dynasty Caroline Hibbard 9. French philosophy and English politics in interregnum poetry Charles Kay Smith 10. 'Crouching at home and cruel while abroad': Restoration constructions of national and international character Annabel Patterson 11. The religion of Charles II Ronald Hutton 12. The duchess of Portsmouth: English royal consort and French politician Nancy Maguire 13. The world beyond Whitehall Geoffrey Parker.

Comusand the Stuart Masque Connection, 1632–34

(1989). Comus and the Stuart Masque Connection, 1632–34. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 2, Seventeenth-Century Poetry. Edited by John Shawcross, pp. 83-89.

The Stuart Masque and Pantagruel's Dreams

In many Stuart masques there comes a moment when form and light triumph over the folly, confusion, and obscurity that for a time threaten, if sometimes more amusingly than dangerously, to cast their shadow over the court's civilized and civilizing splendor. This splendor is inevitably indicated through the formal intertwinings of the dance, sweet music, verse filled with allusions to light and concord, and scenery that in its proportion and balance expresses the Vitruvian and Neoplatonic harmony that (according to this political and artistic myth) typifies and emanates from royal power. Appropriately enough, the resolution into a vision of elegant calm and ordered peace finds expression through a predominately neoclassical style, one that distinguishes these masques from Elizabethan entertainments. Most sources for Inigo Jones's sets and costumes, for example, even those for the irrational and disorderly antimasquers, appeal to what was for the English court a fairly recently acquired taste. I Indeed, it has been suggested that through the loss of earlier and more native elements in court ceremony the Stuarts further alienated themselves from a nation nostalgic for a culture <saturated in romantic memories of medieval traditions and informed by an essentially northern and medieval love for flamboyant spectacle.2 Yet it seems unlikely that Jones and his collaborators, especially Ben Jonson, could have composed antimasques of any vigor had their imaginations not extended into other less fashionable realms of image and behavior, including realms as psychologically compelling as they were morally (and perhaps by now aesthetically) disreputable. Jones and Jonson scattered the irrational from the scene through the politic fictions and splendid revelations that structure the masque, but they cherished it nonetheless, and their

Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque

Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque

Music

Journal Article Music Get access Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque Edited by Andrew Sabol Brown University Press, Providence, 1978, £80 PETER HOLMAN PETER HOLMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 1982, Pages 249–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/10.2.249 Published: 01 April 1982

Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque

Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque. Edited by ANDREW J. SABOL. Pp. xiv+172. Providence, R. I.: Brown University Press, 1959. $4.00. A Score for ‘Lovers Made Men’: A Masque by Ben Jonson. Edited by ANDREW J. SABOL . Pp. xiv+94. Providence: Brown University Press, 1963. $4.00. F. W. STERNFELD F. W. STERNFELD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume XIV, Issue 56, 1963, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XIV.56.409 Published: 01 October 1963

Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque: An Edition of Sixty-Three Items of Music for the English Court Masque from 1604 to 1641.

Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque: An Edition of Sixty-Three Items of Music for the English Court Masque from 1604 to 1641.

Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque

Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque

Certain Relationships of the Manuscripts of "Comus"

Previous articleNext article No AccessCertain Relationships of the Manuscripts of "Comus"John T. ShawcrossJohn T. Shawcross Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 54, Number 1First Quarter, 1960 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.54.1.24299633 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:J. Martin Evans “Much Arguing, Much Writing, Many Opinions”, (Jan 2008): 235–269.https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470757772.oth2blair hoxby The Wisdom of Their Feet: Meaningful Dance in Milton and the Stuart Masque, English Literary Renaissance 37, no.11 (Feb 2007): 74–99.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2007.00094.xDavid Gay "Rapt Spirits": 2 Corinthians 12.2?5 and the Language of Milton's Comus, Milton Quarterly 29, no.33 (Oct 1995): 76–86.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1094-348X.1995.tb00582.xWillíam B. Hunter A Bibliographical Excursus Into Milton's Trinity Manuscript, Milton Quarterly 19, no.33 (Oct 1985): 61–71.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1094-348X.1985.tb00389.xLucy Munro Notes, (): 242–298.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337480.010

Songs and Dances of the Stuart Masque

Songs and Dances of the Stuart Masque

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

REVIEWS OF BOOKS SONGS AND DANCES FOR THE STUART MASQUE, ed. by Andrew J. Sabol. ( Brown University Press, Providence, R. I., 1959. Pp. xiii, 172.) HENRY LELAND CLARKE HENRY LELAND CLARKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume XLV, Issue 3, July 1959, Pages 405–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/XLV.3.405 Published: 01 July 1959

MASQUE

MASQUE Get access Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque, ed. by Andrew J. Sabol. ( Brown University Press, Providence, Rhode Island, 1959.) F. W. S. F. W. S. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume XL, Issue 10, October 1959, Pages 397–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/XL.10.397 Published: 01 October 1959