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Reading Masques

Lauren Shohet

2010304 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Oxford University Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780199295890

Considering masques from the point of view of reception as well as production, this work illuminates intersections of elite and public culture in 17th century England. Lauren Shohet traces the ways that both courtly and non-courtly masques circulated, and rethinks what it means to "read" a masque.

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