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Author:

Heaton, Gabriel.

Title:

Writing and reading royal entertainments : from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson / Gabriel Heaton.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

vi, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Masques, English--History and criticism.
Theater--England--History--16th century
Theater--England--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-299) and index.

Contents:

Elizabethan entertainments. The queen and the hermit : the Tale of Hemetes (1575) ; Armed address : the Elizabethan tournament ; Publishing praise : the circulation of Elizabethan entertainment texts -- Ben Jonson and the Jacobean court. Negotiating gifts : the 1607 entertainment at merchant Taylors' Hall ; Revision and sociability : the 1607 entertainment at Theobalds ; The Jacobean Masque : Jonson, authorship, and royal address.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0199213119
9780199213115 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)500794389

LCCN:

2010281179

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)