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Article: Glorious spangs and rich embroidery: costume in The Masque of Blackness and Hymenaei.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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CRITICISM AND COSTUME
Until the late twentieth century Francis Bacon's scorn for early modern court masques as "toys" had been much echoed, exceptions being studies by academics largely interested in Renaissance iconography. However, the domination of Renaissance studies in the 1980s and '90s by New Historicist and Cultural Materialist critics witnessed the masque revivified as the archetypical event of the period, displaying a complicated nexus of patronage and power relations. This enthusiasm for the masque as an historico-political occasion largely glossed over its various constituent parts, an oversight which is compensated by current work into its material ...