Thomas Campion | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Thomas Campion.

Thomas Campion | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Thomas Campion.
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SOURCE: Spink, Ian. “Campion's Entertainment at Bougham Castle, 1617.” In Music in English Renaissance Drama, pp. 57-74. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968.

In the following essay, Spink discusses Campion's sometimes disputed authorship of a masque given at a Brougham Castle in 1617 for King James I.

King James I spent the summer of 1617 in Scotland. Crossing the border on his return to London, he left Carlisle on August 6 and traveled south to Brougham Castle in Westmoreland, where he was to be the guest that night of Francis Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. Nichols says that the royal progress continued on to Appleby Castle the following day, but we shall see that the King must have stayed at least two nights at Brougham.1

The following year was published The Ayres that were sung and played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment: Given by the Right Honourable the Earle of...

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