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Writing and reading royal entertainments

Heaton, Gabriel.

Writing and reading royal entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson / [electronic resource] : Gabriel Heaton. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (vi, 305 p.) : 1 ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments including tiltyard speeches and court masques, looks in detail at the surviving material texts. It examines the 1602 Harefield entertainment, the 1575 Woodstock entertainment, the Merchant Taylors' and Theobalds' entertainments, and Ben Jonson's work for the Jacobean court.

9780191707148 (ebook) : No price


English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
Masques, English--History and criticism.

PR678.M3

822.309