List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
1. Introduction David Bevington and Peter Holbrook
2. Courtly negotiations Martin Butler
3. Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595 Paul E. J. Hammer
4. Jacobean pacifism and Jacobean masques Peter Holbrook
5. The gingerbread host: tradition and novelty in the Jacobean masque Tom Bishop
6. Inventing the Stuart masque Leeds Barroll
7. Marginal Jonson Stephen Orgel
8. Jonson, the antimasque and the 'rules of flattery' Hugh Craig
9. 'Rival traditions': civic and courtly ceremonies in Jacobean London Nancy E. Wright
10. The Tempest and the Jacobean court masque David Bevington
11.'Virgin wax' and 'hairy men-monsters': unstable movement codes in the Stuart masque Barbara Ravelhofer
12. The politics of music in the masque David Lindley
13. Milton's Comus and the politics of masquing Barbara K. Lewalski
14. Valediction Leah S. Marcus
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