Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night's Dream
Presented Dec.26, 1584, may have been a masque of 1581
"Pastorall of Phillyda and Chorya"
Elizabeth's maids of honor remaining unmarried
Poking fun at Alencon/Elizabeth match through Bottom/Titania
use of "Monsieur", Alencon's title at court in France
1584 sonett of Pyramus and Thisbe in "handful of pleasant delites"
Musk rose introduced to England by 1582
MND later produced at court in 1594 at the marriage of the Earl of Derby to Oxford's daughter, Elizabeth.
Lysander and Hermia may be Thomas Knyvet and Anne Vavasour.
Robin Goodfellow mentioned in Anthony Munday's 1584 "Two Italian Gentlemen"
Munday was Oxford's secretary.
Presented Dec.26, 1584, may have been a masque of 1581
"Pastorall of Phillyda and Chorya"
Elizabeth's maids of honor remaining unmarried
Poking fun at Alencon/Elizabeth match through Bottom/Titania
use of "Monsieur", Alencon's title at court in France
1584 sonett of Pyramus and Thisbe in "handful of pleasant delites"
Musk rose introduced to England by 1582
MND later produced at court in 1594 at the marriage of the Earl of Derby to Oxford's daughter, Elizabeth.
Lysander and Hermia may be Thomas Knyvet and Anne Vavasour.
Robin Goodfellow mentioned in Anthony Munday's 1584 "Two Italian Gentlemen"
Munday was Oxford's secretary.
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