I can't now recall and don't have a copy, but does not Enid Welsford's
1927 <The Court Masque> do something of what your are asking about? JD
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tiffany Werth wrote:
> I've been working on a project that traces the transmission of cultural
> forms into poetic texts, specifically earlier forms of the masque. It
> seems that someone must have already done a study of the courtly masque
> or popular pageant tradition as it informs Spenser's mask of Cupid in
> book III, but it has eluded me. Anyone on the list familiar with such a
> piece of scholarship?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tiffany Werth
>
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