Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly was a
Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly proved to be the last masque in which
Background
During the previous six years, the English Court of King
The queen's masque Love Freed was originally scheduled for December 1610, and then for Twelfth Night, 6 January 1611. It was postponed twice because of delays in the arrival of the French ambassador, the Marshal de Laverdin, in the wake of the assassination of Henri IV.[2] Martin Butler explains a misunderstanding that the performance was delayed a whole year, which was based on a misreading of a letter from the Venetian ambassador.[3] Marc' Antonio Correr also suggested the delay was caused by problems with the stage machinery.[4]
The show
The masque featured a dozen primary masquers: Anne's ladies in waiting as Daughters of the Morn, with Anne herself as the Queen of the Orient.
Fees
Both Jonson and Jones received their standard fee of £40 for the masque, though a "dancing master" Nicholas Confesse who taught the ladies their choreography was paid £50, and his assistant Jacques Bochan got £20 for "teaching the ladies the footing of 2 dances".
Publication
The text was published in the first folio collection of Jonson's works in 1616, and was reprinted in the second folio of 1640 and in subsequent Jonson collections.
References
- ^ Michael Leapman, Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance (London, Headline Book Publishing, 2003) p. 83.
- ^ John Leeds Barroll, Anne of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (Philadelphia, 2001), pp. 127–8.
- ^ Martin Butler, The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008), p. 362.
- ^ Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers Venice, 1610-1613, vol. 12 (London, 1905), pp. 101 no. 153, 106 no. 159, 110 no. 164.
- ^ Martin Butler, The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008), p. 136.
- ^ W. H. Hart, 'Expenses for Masques in 1610', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, vol. 1 (London, 1861), pp. 31-2.
- E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 3 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923), pp. 386–7.
- ^ Martin Wiggins &Catherine Teresa Richardson, British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616 (Oxford, 2015), p. 122.