Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton

male, deceased (1627)
from the City of London, Christ's Hospital Old Blue, masque, English Renaissance dramatist, pageant, tragedy
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most...
Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion

male, deceased (1620)
Lord Hay's Masque, tudor, Astrophel and Stella, composer, physician, john cooper…masque, The Lord Hay's Masque, The Lord's Masque, Somerset Masque
Thomas Campion, (sometimes Campian) (February 12, 1567 - March 1, 1620) was an English composer, poet and physician. Campion was born in London and...
John Blow

John Blow

male, deceased (1708)
Cathedral organist, English classical organist, buried at Westminster Abbey, From nottinghamshire, venus and adonis, Chapel Royal…masque
John Blow (1649 - October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell. Blow was probably...

Libretto

male
Italian, masque, requiem, scenario, Musical theatre, oratorio
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, musical, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata,...
Rachel Zolf

Rachel Zolf

female
Her absence, this wanderer, Canadian women writer, masque, Human Resources, Jewish person, Trillium Book Award
Rachel Zolf is the author of the poetry collections "Human Resources" (Coach House Books, 2007), "Masque" (The Mercury Press, 2004), which was...
James Thomson

James Thomson

male, deceased (1748)
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Richmond, London, The Seasons, university of edinburgh, alfred, tory…masque
James Thomson (11 September 1700 - 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. He was born at Ednam in Roxburghshire, and educated at the...
Henry Lawes

Henry Lawes

male, deceased (1662)
musician, Baroque composer, composer, Italian, charles ii, sonnet…masque
Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 - October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his...

Matthew Locke

male, deceased (1677)
Baroque composer, Edward Gibbons, Cupid and Death, The Siege of Rhodes, Christopher Gibbons, The History of Sir Francis Drake…masque
Matthew Locke (ca. 1621 - 1677) was an English baroque composer and music theorist. As a boy he was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under...
Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood

male, deceased (1641)
Jacobean theatre, Essayist, Non-fiction writer, Elizabethan theatre, English, masque
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s-16 August1641) was a prominent English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls...
David Bevington

David Bevington

male
Creepy Crawlers, University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, effigy, British drama, comparative literature, English Renaissance…masque
David Bevington is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the...