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Coming of Age on Stage: The Pedagogical Masque in Seventeenth-Century England

The English masque, according to standard critical accounts, enabled the early Stuart monarchs and their courtiers to present an idealized vision of themselves to themselves. In the process of holding up this costumed, choreographed, and highly selective mirror to magistrates, the masque has long been understood to have a didactic function, especially in the hands of its most famous author and theorist, Ben Jonson. In his often-quoted manifesto at the beginning of the published text of Hymenaei, a court masque written in 1606, Jonson insists that