Masques.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Short allegorical dramatic compositions for enactment by masked performers, originally consisting of dancing and acting in dumb show but later including dialogue and song. Popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. Source: ‘Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles’, prepared by William Little, H W Fowler, J Coulson; revised and edited by C T Onions (London, March 1933).
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Album of verses and masques, chiefly by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1798-1803.
Item
Identifier: MS.12824
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
1798-1803.
"Cupid's Cure", a masque by the 1st Earl of Minto, performed at the Juvenile Theatre, Roehampton, 13 April 1799., 1799.
Item
Identifier: MS.12828
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
1799.
Masques and longer poems, chiefly of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1798-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.12830
Scope and Contents
Includes duplicates of material in MSS.12824, 12828.
Dates:
1798-1809.