- 1980–81. 1980–81, This essay began as an illustrated lecture given in Britain and the USA in. In recasting it considerably for present publication I have acknowledged various contributions made to the understanding of these entertainment texts in the intervening years, but as far as detailed knowledge is concerned of the Newcastle/Jonson patronage relationship, I wish to thank especially Nick Rowe for the use of his unpublished doctoral thesis cited in note 4..
- 1989. Ben Jonson: A Life . 1989, The most recent biography of Jonson is David Riggs, (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press,)..
- 1979. Welbeck Abbey and its Owners . 1979. p. 181, On the life see A. S. Turberville, 2 vols (London: Faber, 1938–1939), vol. I; and Geoffrey Trease, Portrait of a Cavalier: William Cavendish, First Duke of Newcastle (London: Macmillan,). On ‘fair vaults’ see Mark Girouard, Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983), p. This is a revision of Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era (London: Country Life, 1966)..
- Rowe, Nick , 1987. "‘Case Studies in the Aristocratic Patronage of Ben Jonson’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Reading, 1994), p.; Richard Cust". In: The Forced Loan and English Politics, 1626–1628 . 1987. pp. 215–98, See (Oxford: Clarendon Press,), pp. 197-, 290; CSP Dom. 1635–36, p. 342, records that Newcastle was entrusted with the guardianship of Buckingham's son..
- 1925–52. 1925–52, Ben Jonson, ed. by C.H. Herford, Percy and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press,), I, 212. (Hereafter H&S.) All quotations are from this edition. The letter is from British Library, Harleian MS 4955, a collection mentioned below..
- 1906. Epigrams . 1906, LIII and LIX; the Charles Cavendish epitaph in H&S, VIII, 387; the Lady Ogle epitaph, H&S VIII, 394; the Blackfriars entertainment, H&S VII, 767–78. There is also a song by Jonson (H&S, VIII, 416) belonging to another welcome of the king by Newcastle. Margaret [Cavendish], Duchess of Newcastle, The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, ed. by C. H. Firth, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, []), also mentions a third entertainment of the king: ‘Besides these two, there was another small entertainment which my Lord prepared for his late Majesty, in his own park at Welbeck, when His Majesty came down, with his two nephews, the now Prince Elector Palatine, and his brother Prince Rupert, into the Forest of Sherwood; which cost him fifteen hundred pounds’ (p. 104)..
- 1658. Méthode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux . Antwerp. 1658, This was translated from Newcastle's English, and was also reprinted in London in 1671. The English text, A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses, was printed in London in 1667. An enlarged version of the book, with the original Diebenbeke engravings of the 1658, was printed in London in 1743 (A General System of Horsemanship)..
- 1962. Smythson . 1962, Royal Institute of British Architects, Smythson Collection, III/15 (3, 5, 6). These Welbeck drawings are reproduced in Girouard, (1983) as Plates 165 and 168a and b. For a catalogue of the Smythson collection prepared by Girouard see Architectural History, 5..
- Girouard, , 1983. Smythson . 1983, Plate 167. It seems likely that the Diebenbeke engravings of Newcastle's houses were made from drawings done in the 1630s..
- Hutchinson, Lucy , 1973. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson . 1973. p. 61, by James Sutherland (London: Oxford University Press,), p..
- Cavendish, Margaret , Life . pp. 103–4.
- Grant, Douglas , 1957. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish . 1957. p. 58, (London: Hart Davis,), p..
- , See? Manuscript Poem on the Royal Progress of 1634: An Edition and Translation of John Westwood's ‘Carmen Basileuporion’, below..
- 1888. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England . Oxford. 1888, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, ed. by W. Dunn Macray, 6 vols, I, 167..
- Cavendish, Margaret , Life . p. 182.
- 1918. The First Duchess of Newcastle and her Husband as Figures in Literary History . 1918. p. 17, Quoted in Henry Ten Eyck Perry, Harvard Studies in English, IV (Boston and London: Ginn,), p..
- 1952. The Library . 1952, British Library, Additional MS 31432, fol. 20v. John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS 31432: William Lawes’ writing for the Theatre and Court’, 5th series, 7, 225–34, notes textual differences but does not consider the possibility that setting is not contemporary with performance. On their own, these verses could easily have been used on another occasion..
- 1986. The Courtship Narrative of Leonard Wheatcroft, Derbyshire Yeoman . 1986. p. 86, For a running at the quintain in a Derbyshire country marriage in the yeoman class in the seventeenth century, see ed. by George Parfitt and Ralph Houlbrooke (Reading: Whiteknights Press,), p..
- 1908. Masque of Christmas . 1908, Here, as elsewhere, Jonson seems to show a knowledge of the 1575 Kenilworth entertainment in Laneham's report. This was first noticed by C. R. Baskerville, ‘The Sources of Jonson's Love's Welcome at Welbeck’, Modern Philology, 7, 257–69..
- Turberville, , , I, 3. It was Premonstratensian, but Jonson does not refer to white dress..
- 1984. Theatre and Crisis 1632–1642 . 1984. pp. 194–98, On Newcastle's own distaste for French fashion at court, see the references collected in Martin Butler, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,), pp..
- 1973. 1973. p. 21, I do not know whether Jonson is modelling his expression on any particular Latin source, but there are general similarities with the prosphonetikon discussed by Francis Cairns, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,), p. ff..
- Marcus, Leah S. , 1986. The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Customs . 1986. pp. 128–32, (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,), pp..
- Felltham, Owen , , ‘An Answer to the Ode…’, in H&S, XI, 339–40..
- Library, British , 1975. Jonson's Gypsies Unmasked . 1975. pp. 77–78, Harleian MS 4955, fol. 166v, partially printed in H&S, XI, 387–89. Dale B. Randall, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,), pp.—, uses ‘Francis’ Andrews in speculations about Jonson's researches in Derbyshire. A full account of Andrews and his milieu is provided by Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Manuscript’, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, IV (London: British Library, 1993), pp. 134–73.
- Gordon, D. J. , 1975. "‘Poet and Architect: The Intellectual Setting of the Quarrel between Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones’, in". In: The Renaissance Imagination . 1975. pp. 77–101, by Stephen Orgel (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press,), pp. The essay originally appeared in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 12 (1949), 152–78. Gordon's critical response to the Bolsover text is worth quoting: ‘…one of the most accomplished of Jonson's court entertainments. Brief and apparently slight, its scheme is completely unified and most deftly contrived to carry, with the utmost grace and ease, a theme rich in resonances: and grace and ease and deftness are shown, too, in the accommodation of the theme to the moment, and in the tone of the writing, which is always that of the courtier, yet remains light, and witty: a model of urbanity. References to Jones and to the place of the poet at court have lost any touch of bitterness, and participate in this urbanity; and are the more effective for it.’ My disagreements with this generous and inteligent assessment are mainly to do with expression of occasion and place: this is not quite like a court masque..
- 1993. Bolsover Castle . 1993. pp. 297–302, The text of P. A. Faulkner's official guidebook ((1972; London: English Heritage,)), originally published in 1972, was being prepared at the same time as Girouard's first book on the Smythsons. There are differences between Faulkner and Girouard on the chronology of building. See Girouard, Smythson (1983), Appendix II, ‘The Building Chronology of Bolsover Castle’, pp.—, and the Appendix included in latest editions of the English Heritage guide, ‘Sequence of building’, pp. 52–53. Girouard takes the view (Smythson (1983), pp. 265–66) that work on the terrace range was not complete enough for a full-blown meal, but that conclusion is open to question..
- Mowl, Timothy , 1993. Elizabethan and Jacobean Style . 1993. pp. 117–23, (London: Phaidon,), pp.—, 180–85..
- 1983. Smythson . 1983, Royal Institute of British Architects, Smythson Collection III/I (2); reproduced in Girouard, Plate 98..
- , Phrase from letter to Newcastle, H&S, I, 213..
- 1966. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage . 1966. p. 194, Scholars have disagreed about the actual setting for the after-dinner entertainments: Gerald Eades Bentley assumes it to have been in the garden, with the aid of mechanical devices (7 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941–68), IV, 653); Girouard, Smythson, p., put the ‘masque’ into the Fountain Garden with the spectators up on the walls; Roy Strong, The Renaissance Garden in England (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979), p. 199, puts king and queen into the Fountain Garden and, taking his cue from Girouard, the ‘courtly spectators’ on the walls; Mowl (p.185) puts the performance in the garden and the royal pair in the western garden room as retiring place. In all this, it must be understood that ‘banquet’ meant not a feast but a sweet aftercourse (see Oxford English Dictionary, banquet, sb. 3)..
- 1980. Essays and Studies . 1980, On this issue, see John Dixon Hunt, ‘Theatres, Gardens, and Garden-Theatres’, 95–118..
- Gregory, F. W.C. , 1947. ‘Bolsover Castle: A Review of the Seventeenth-Century Buildings’ , Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 51 (1947), 25..
- Bolsover Castle . p. 59, On the ceiling of the so-called Elysium Room, at bedroom level, where the painted programmes on upper walls and ceiling display the pagan gods under Jupiter in heaven. The design is supposed to derive from an engraving of Primaticcio's ceiling in the Galerie D'Ulysse at Fontainebleau (Faulkner, p.)..
- , H&S, I, 210–14; all from British Library, Harleian MS 4955..
- , H&S, I, 214..
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