The Hue and Cry After Cupid
The Hue and Cry After Cupid, or A Hue and Cry After Cupid, also Lord Haddington's Masque or The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage, or even The Masque With the Nuptial Songs at the Lord Viscount Haddington's Marriage at Court, was a
The marriage
The masque celebrated the marriage of
The show
The principal masquers, nobles and gentlemen of the Court, appeared in the guise of the twelve signs of the
The set for the masque was noteworthy in that it may well have been the first instance in which the
The twelve principal masquers reported spent £300 each on their costumes of carnation and silver.
The source
The masque adapts a tale from the Idyll of the Ancient Greek pastoral poet Moschus. The Idyll was extremely popular during the Renaissance and was known in various French and Italian adaptations; the actual version that Jonson employed for his text is uncertain.
Publication
The masque was published in quarto, in an undated edition that probably (to judge by the examples of previous masques) was issued soon after the February performance. The text was reprinted in the first folio collection of Jonson's works in 1616, and in subsequent collections of Jonson's works.
Notes
- ^ Ramsay killed John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie in the so-called Gowrie Conspiracy.
- ^ Leapman, pp. 94.
- ^ Chambers, Vol. 3, p. 382: Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1838), p. 223.
- ^ Leapman, p. 95.
References
- Chambers, E. K.The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
- Leapman, Michael. Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance. London, Headline Book Publishing, 2003.