Abstract
Much of the recent musicological interest in the Jonsonian masque has been misguided. In this chapter I shall try to suggest why this is so by looking at the ways in which contemporary attitudes to masque performances determined the forms in which masque texts and music were preserved.
Chapter PDF
Notes
Bulstrode Whitelocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (London, 1682) p. 21.
Diana Poulton, John Dowland (London, 1972) p. 310.
Pamela Willets, ‘Sir Nicholas Le Strange’s Collection of Masque Music’, British Museum Quarterly, vol. xxix (1965) pp. 79–81.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1983 Australian National University
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Walls, P. (1983). Insubstantial Pageants Preserved: the Literary and Musical Sources for the Jonsonian Masque. In: Donaldson, I. (eds) Jonson and Shakespeare. The Humanities Research Centre/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06183-9_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06183-9_13
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-06185-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-06183-9
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)