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Lord Hay's Masque

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on the right and a House of Night on the left. One scene featured artificial owls and bats flying around the set on wires. The nine gold trees moved and danced and split apart to reveal the nine principal masquers (the trees then sank into the stage below, at a touch from Night's wand). The masquers,
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The masque was richly supplied with music, created by several composers – including Campion himself, who contributed two "airs" for songs and a dance. The published text indicates that the music was played by a "consort of twelve," violins with three lutes, a "consort of ten" that included
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Such political and social import is a heavy load to lay on a new marriage. Within two years the couple were facing difficulties. Honoria was supposedly unfaithful and Hay was jealous; he broke open her cabinets in search of love letters and threatened her servants. Lady
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shortly after, printed by John Windet for the bookseller John Browne. Campion's verses conjoin the personal and political, hailing the marriage of Hay and Denny and looking forward to a day when English/Scottish intermarriage will produce a new "British" citizen.
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the previous year. The intricate politics of the Stuart Court decreed some key differences between the two events; while the bill for
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dressed in carnation and cloth of silver and initially concealed in green and silver leaves, were nine knights of
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was paid by King James, the expenses of the masque for Lord Hay were covered by the powerful Howard and
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Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance.
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Jones's design for the masque had a sylvan theme, centered on a Grove of
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Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance.
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celebrated the marriage of an important Scottish aristocrat
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is thinner than for some other Court masques of the era.
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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography.
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Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604–1640.
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Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
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Index

Jacobean
masque
Thomas Campion
Inigo Jones
Twelfth Night
1607
Whitehall Palace
Stuart
Sir James Hay
gentlewoman
Honora Denny
Edward, Lord Denny
James I
Hymenaei
Cecil
Theophilus Howard, Lord Walden
Earl of Suffolk
Anne of Denmark
Diana
Flora
Apollo
harpsichord
bandora
sackbut
cornets
Stationers' Register
quarto
Mary Wroth
roman à clef
The Lords' Masque

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