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Analysis of Jonson Masque of Blackness

The first factual court masque was The Masque of Blackness which Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones offered on Twelfth Night in 1605 for James I. It was Queen Anne who presented the masque to the Jacobean court. Elizabeth I is said to have dispatched one to Anne and James as a marriage gift, and it is renowned that Anne's male sibling, the King of Denmark, had alike entertainments at his court. Jonson composed that she inquired him to compose one in which she could emerge as a very dark woman, “because it ...