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Court Masques
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: David Lindley
Categories: Courts and courtiers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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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 gen
Masques of Difference
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Ben Jonson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Masques of Difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques ref
Blackness in Opera
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Naomi Andre
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-k
Shades of Difference
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Sujata Iyengar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-12 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts descr
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Curtis Craddock
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-29 - Publisher: Tor Books

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An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is Curtis Craddock's delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring a genius heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer, w