The Masque

The Masque Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Development Of The Masque
  • The Masque
  • The Reformation of the Masque
  • Ben Jonson's Haddington Masque and The Masque of Queenes: Stuart England and the Notion of Order
  • Comus: Milton's Re-Formation of the Masque
  • Ben Jonson's Antimasques: A History of Growth and Decline
• Criticism: Sources And Structure
  • ‘Those Beautiful Characters of Sense’: Classical Deities and Court Masque
  • The English Masque and the Functions of Comedy
  • The Masks of Cupid and Death
  • Court and Country: The Masque as Sociopolitical Subtext
  • The Masque and the Marvelous
  • The Masque
• Criticism: Race And Gender In The Masque
  • 'Man-maid, begone!': Women in Masque
  • Dark Incontinents: The Discourses of Race and Gender in Three Renaissance Masques
  • The Queen's Masque: Renaissance Women and the Seventeenth-Century Court Masque
  • From Woman Warrior to Warrior Reasoner: Lady Alice and Intellectual Freedom in A Mask
  • ‘Like One in a Gay Masque’: The Sidney Cousins in the Theaters of Court and Country
• Further Reading