Lauren Shohet is the author of numerous essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and other topics in poetry, drama, history of the book, and adaptation studies. She holds degrees in English Literature (Ph.D. and M.A., Brown University; B.A., Oberlin College), Comparative Literature (B.A. Oberlin College), and Harpsichord Performance (B.Mus., Oberlin College Conservatory.) She teaches English at Villanova University.

Shohet's work is an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of this period and how we engage with its diverse and sometimes contradictory textual traces.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON PROCEDURES ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Horizons of the masque ; 2. Reading ; 3. Interpreting ; 4. The masque and the news ; 5. Politics, epistemology, and public theater ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDICES ; INDEX

Lauren Shohet is the author of numerous essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and other topics in poetry, drama, history of the book, and adaptation studies. She holds degrees in English Literature (Ph.D. and M.A., Brown University; B.A., Oberlin College), Comparative Literature (B.A. Oberlin College), and Harpsichord Performance (B.Mus., Oberlin College Conservatory.) She teaches English at Villanova University.

Shohet's work is an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of this period and how we engage with its diverse and sometimes contradictory textual traces.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON PROCEDURES ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Horizons of the masque ; 2. Reading ; 3. Interpreting ; 4. The masque and the news ; 5. Politics, epistemology, and public theater ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDICES ; INDEX

Lauren Shohet is the author of numerous essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and other topics in poetry, drama, history of the book, and adaptation studies. She holds degrees in English Literature (Ph.D. and M.A., Brown University; B.A., Oberlin College), Comparative Literature (B.A. Oberlin College), and Harpsichord Performance (B.Mus., Oberlin College Conservatory.) She teaches English at Villanova University.

Shohet's work is an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of this period and how we engage with its diverse and sometimes contradictory textual traces.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON PROCEDURES ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Horizons of the masque ; 2. Reading ; 3. Interpreting ; 4. The masque and the news ; 5. Politics, epistemology, and public theater ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDICES ; INDEX