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Mr.Moore's Revels:A “Lost” Oxford Masque

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John R. Elliott Jr.
John R. Elliott Jr.*
Affiliation:
Syracuse University
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The existence of an Oxford dramatic piece of 1636 variously called Moore's Mask or The Moor's Mask has been known to scholars since 1891, when F. G. Fleay included it in a list of “University plays in English.” Fleay gave no source for his information, however, and the location of the manuscript has hitherto been unknown. G. E. Bentley wrote in 1956 that “I find no other record of this masque. Presumably Fleay's information was derived from the manuscript, but I do not know where it is.” Harbage and Schoenbaum's Annals of English Drama (1964) simply repeats Fleay's entry with the comment “Extant?” Fleay called the work Moore's Mask; Bentley The Moor's Mask; Harbage and Schoenbaum give both titles

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Research Article
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1984 , pp. 411 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1984

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