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==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues==
The interest in Amazons may point to the [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A08840.0001.001/1:6.1?c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div2;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=Palace+of+Pleasure story of the Amazons] in the Second Tome of William Painter's [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08840.0001.001 Palace of Pleasure] (1567).
The interest in Amazons may point to the [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A08840.0001.001/1:6.1?c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div2;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=Palace+of+Pleasure story of the Amazons] in the Second Tome of William Painter's [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08840.0001.001 Palace of Pleasure] (1567).
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==References to the Play==
==References to the Play==

Revision as of 23:38, 1 November 2016

Anon. (1579)


Historical Records

'A Maske of Amazons' is listed in the Revels accounts of 1578/9 as one of the masques performed 'before her maiestie the ffrench Imbassadour being presente the sonday night after Twelfdaie [11 January] whereof one was' (Feuillerat 286, 287).


Theatrical Provenance

Leicester's, at Richmond.


Probable Genre(s)

Masque.


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

The interest in Amazons may point to the story of the Amazons in the Second Tome of William Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1567).


References to the Play

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Critical Commentary

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For What It's Worth

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Works Cited

Feuillerat, Revels. Internet Archive.
Wiggins, Volume II.


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