Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque

1. Introduction: ‘Friends of All Ranks’? Reading the Masque in Political Culture
James Knowles

2. ‘Vizarded impudence’: Challenging the regnum Cecilianum
James Knowles

3. ‘Crack Kisses Not Staves’: Sexual Politics and Court Masques in 1613–14
James Knowles

4. ‘No News’: News from the New World and Textual Culture in the 1620s
James Knowles

5. ‘Hoarse with Praising’: The Gypsies Metamorphosed and the Politics of Masquing
James Knowles

6. ’‘Tis for kings, / Not for their subjects, to have such rare things’: The Triumph of Peace and Civil Culture
James Knowles

Avainsanat: Science, Science, general