SOURCE: Freehufer, John. “The Italian Night Piece and Suckling's Aglaura.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67, no. 2 (April 1968): 249-65.

In the following excerpt, Freehufer discusses a 1638 staging of Suckling's Aglaura, arguing that this piece was likely the Italian Night Masque mentioned by contemporary critic Henry Wotton.

Of the plays known to have been acted with scenery by the Caroline King's men, all but one can be shown to differ from The Italian Night Masque as Robinson described it. Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess was by no means “new” in 1633/4. Cartwright's Royal Slave was withheld from public performance by the King. Habington's Queen of Aragon was not performed until after Wotton's death. Henry Killigrew's Conspiracy may have been performed with scenery on 8 January 1634/5, but that performance, at York House, was private, and the Lord Chamberlain, who presented the play, probably had it performed by his “servants out of his own family...