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 colors, and stage design in performance. With splendid costumes and choreographies, masques once appealed to the five senses. A tribute to their colorful brilliance, this book seeks to recover a lost dimension of performance culture in early modern England.
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"One of the most thorough treatments of the actual staging of [court masques] to date." --Sixteenth Century Journal
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Barbara Ravelhofer is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Durham and a Research Associate of the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge. She pursued her research at the Universities of Munich, Princeton, Bologna, and Cambridge, where she was a Junior Research Fellow in Renaissance Studies.
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A wonderful source, full of sources,
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The Early Stuart Masque explains the vagueness of what is remaining of the Stuart Masques with a variety of sources - manuscripts, books (modern and of the stuart era), and plays, including where they were found. A wonderful source for someone looking for a jumping off point for late Elizabethan, Stuart, or early Baroque dance, music, plays, and/or fashion.
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Henrietta Maria, Coelum Britannicum, Inigo Jones, Salmacida Spolia, New York, Pleasure Reconciled, Queen Anne, Britannia Triumphans, Cesare Negri, The Masque of Queenes, Tempe Restored, Ben Jonson, New Haven, Mehmet Efendi, Early Music, Ottoman Empire, John Ward, Case Studies, Banqueting House, John Orrell, Stephen Orgel, Fabritio Caroso, Chatsworth Settlement Trustees, Prince Henry, Photographic Survey Browse Sample Pages:
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