Masques of Difference

Masques of difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions of monarchy, empire, and national identity were being radically redefined. All four masques reflect the royal court's self-representation as moral, orderly, and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy. This edition presents two masques that have received recent attention in the classroom - The Masque of Blackness and The Masque of Queens - and two that have never before been anthologised for the student reader - The Irish Masque at Court and The Masque of the Gypsies Metamorphosed. This anthology offers students the latest in scholarship and critical theory and essential clues for understanding the ideologies that shaped many of the modern structures of English culture.

ISBN 071905754X   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780719057540 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 249 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Paperback   Series title Revels Plays Student Editions Publication date 01 Nov 2007   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress PR2624   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 822.3   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Further/Higher education

		List of Plates
		Introduction		1
		The Masques		89
		The Masque of Blackness		91
		The Masque of Queens		106
		The Irish Masque at Court		133
		The Masque of the Gypsies Metamorphosed		141
App. 1		Masquers in Blackness		205
App. 2		Masquers in Queens		208
App. 3		Irish Masque translation		210

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