The Masque of Blackness by Ben Jonson

The Masque of Blackness

Ben Jonson with David Lindley

10 pages first pub 1608 (editions) not a book

fiction play adventurous medium-paced

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The Masque of Blackness was an early Jacobean era masque. The masque was written by Ben Jonson at the request of Anne of Denmark, the queen consort of King James I, who wished the masquers to be disguised as Africans. Anne was one of the performer...

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