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Hace 2 horas · This chapter is mainly about one masque-wright—James Shirley (1596–1666)—who used absent-present jokes in his The Triumph of Peace (1634), and who actually staged a troupe of monkeys in Cupid and Death (1653). The intrinsic metatheatricality of apes meant that Shirley could use audience recollections of ‘baboons / In quellios’ to enable his ritual strategy for Peace to negotiate the ...
Hace 2 horas · In late 1634, while James Shirley was basking in the success of The Triumph of Peace, William Davenant, second son of a merchant vintner whose Oxford tavern numbered Shakespeare amongst its guests, was in the early stages of his inexorable rise at court.A wily and persistent networker, this ‘lively and gregarious’ young man seems to have secured the patronage of Henrietta Maria by ‘open ...
Hace 2 horas · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
