Examines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.

A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jonson into a s

»The Masque of the Red Death« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1842. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stint