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Article: Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments: 1605-1640.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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David Lindley, ed. (Oxford Drama Library.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xxviii + 286 pp. $ 65 (cl), $13.95 (pbk). ISBN: n.a.
Lindley's anthology of eighteen Jacobean and Caroline entertainments provides a well-edited compilation of an array of examples of the genre, the fullest collection since Spencer and Wells's Book of Masques (1967). As part of the Oxford Drama Library, this text provides an extremely compact and accessible introductory reader for college teachers and their students. Many of the supplementary materials are similarly ideal for classroom use, including a very succinct introduction, a brief note on the circumstances surrounding each masque's ...