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Article: The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 22, 2007
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The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 317 pp. $99.00 US (cloth).
Around 1650 Robert Bargrave, a junior secretary of the Levant Company, was ordered to compose a wedding masque for the daughter of the English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In his diary, which is otherwise full of the day-to-day business of a foreign merchant's life in Constantinople, he recorded detailed plans for the masque's choreographies, poems, and tunes. This interesting archival find might be no more than a historical curiosity were it not that Bargrave's diary is the only known surviving example of pre-1700 ...