Campion, Thomas

Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640 (World's Classics)

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Unique Fusion of Dance, Drama, Music, and Stagecraft

Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640 (World's Classics)
Ben Jonson , and Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century. This selection of 18 masque for Charles I, performed just before the outbreak of civil war. It also includes examples of entertainments performed on royal progresses, as well as one domestic masque. Court masques were extravagant multi-media happenings, imbued with often arcane allegorical programmes by writers and designers, and frequently commenting on tipical political issues. In this, the most substantial available selection, readers are offered the annotation necessary for understanding the complexities of the individual texts. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition to the detailed notes there is a scholarly introduction, making this edition invaluable to students of Renaissance drama and court culture.

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Unique Fusion of Dance, Drama, Music, and Stagecraft.......2005-04-24

More than fifty court masques were held in the period 1605-1640. Eighteen representative masques have been compiled in this Oxford University Press (World's Classics series) book, titled Court Masques. This text offers a good introduction to this largely unfamiliar form of entertainment.

The court masque was an extravagant, ostentatious, theatrical spectacle that dominated entertainment in the Stuart courts of King James I and Charles I. Inordinately costly, these aristocratic entertainments were often a source of friction between the king and parliament. Following the revolution of Oliver Cromwell, court masques came to an end.

The editor, David Lindley, provides valuable supplementary material: a general introduction to the court masque, a chronology of Stuart masques, and a select bibliography on general studies, stagecraft, music and dance, as well as sources for Jonson, Campion, Chapman, Daniel, and Davenant.

I especially appreciated the extensive explanatory notes as many of the masques presumed audience familiarity with relatively obscure elements of Greek and Roman mythology. The notes also clarified oblique references to sensitive political issues of the Stuart period, even the high cost of the masques themselves.

Ben Jonson was clearly the dominant creator of court masques and he was its most pugnacious defender. Throughout this long period Jonson forcefully argued that the key value of court masque was its intellectual message. Contrastingly, the remarkable Indigo Jones that designed and built the complex stage scenery and its associated machinery wrote, "... and indeed, these shows are nothing else but pictures with light and motion."

Despite the excellent supplementary material and explanatory notes, Court Masques may initially seem difficult, in part due to the unfamiliarity of the masque. In some ways reading a masque is like reading an opera, except that we can easily visualize an operatic performance. David Lindley is to be commended for creating this interesting collection that makes the Jacobean and Caroline court masques accessible to non-specialists.

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Essential Campion (Essential Poets)
Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: Ecco Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Works of Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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ASIN: 0393004392

SELECTED SONGS OF THOMAS CAMPION . Edited by W. H. Auden.

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SELECTED SONGS OF THOMAS CAMPION . Edited by W. H. Auden.
Thomas. Campion
Manufacturer: David Godine,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S6QFB4

Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, theologian, musician, doctor;: Some biographical notes,

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Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, theologian, musician, doctor;: Some biographical notes,
Charles Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: A. & C. Black
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006D8HEM

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Campion's works
Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: Clarendon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007JR5IY

Songs and masques,: With Observations in the art of English poesy (His Works)

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Songs and masques,: With Observations in the art of English poesy (His Works)
Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: Folcroft Library Editions
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Binding: Unknown Binding

A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint/Rules How to Compose (Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions) (Music Theory in Britain, ... in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions)

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A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint/Rules How to Compose (Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions) (Music Theory in Britain, ... in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions)
Thomas Campion , and Giovanni Coprario
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Selected songs of Thomas Campion; selected and prefaced by W. H. Auden

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Selected songs of Thomas Campion; selected and prefaced by W. H. Auden
Thomas CAMPION
Manufacturer: David E. Godine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GT94HU

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The Selected Songs of Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion
Manufacturer: David R Godine Pub
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ASIN: 0879230916

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