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Excerpt from Court Masques of James I: Their Influence on Shakespeare and the Public Theatres, a Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the University of Nebraska
Research for material upon such masquas opened up new avenues of investigation. New documents, yet unpublished, were found, involving Shakespeare and his company with the Royal M asquers, the nobility, and foreign ambassadors. Though no genuine scholar to-day gives serious heed to the old cry which held actors to be of low estimate or morals, in the time of Elizabeth and James I, nevertheless few realise how false was such a charge, or what essential instruments of state actors and producers of literature really were. Few, therefore, evaluate correctly the position occupied by T he King's Players, Grooms of the King's Chamber, and teachers and assistants to royalty, in presenting masques. Of interest also are stage plans, of Inigo Jones and other architects, for masques and plays presented in the Court, arrangements of Court halls, seating of audiences, etc. All these things shed at least a tiny ray of light upon the comparative dark ness which surrounds the Shakespearean stage. Consid cration of all these questions is under way, but many of them, though interesting and tempting, are excluded from the present discussion, for want Of room, and because they are extraneous to the main purpose of the present investigation.
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