Master of the Revels - Revision history

Pankratz at 15:45, 30 April 2009

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	You can see the working of a fictitious Master of the Revels in [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]'s ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'': Philostrate's job is to organise the shows, song, dance and plays for Duke Theseus' wedding.		You can see the working of a fictitious Master of the Revels in [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]'s ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'': Philostrate's job is to organise the shows, song, dance and plays for Duke Theseus' wedding.

			In the Restoration, the office of Master of the Revels turned into a "sinecure" and "cypher" (Winton 1980: 290) mainly thanks to Thomas and Charles Killigrew. Thomas Killigrew was the manager of the King's Company, his son unsuccessfully tried to follow in his footsteps. In any case, people simultaneously owning and running a theatre as well as acting as Master of the Revels follows the "den Bock zum Gärtner machen"-principle.


			Sources:
			Winton, Calhoun (1980), "Dramatic Censorship", in: Robert D. Hume, ed., ''The London Theatre World'', Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 286-308.

WikiSysop at 20:20, 16 January 2009

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	Originally the person who organised all court entertainments. When censorship became a monopoly of the government, the Master of the Revels became the de facto censor starting from 1581. The companies had to get a licence for every new play they planned to perform and the Master of the Revels had the right and the duty "to order and reform, authorise and put down, as shall be thought meet or unmeet unto himself, or his said deputy in that behalf" (quoted in Gurr 72).		Originally the person who organised all court entertainments. When censorship became a monopoly of the government, the Master of the Revels became the de facto censor starting from 1581. The companies had to get a licence for every new play they planned to perform and the Master of the Revels had the right and the duty "to order and reform, authorise and put down, as shall be thought meet or unmeet unto himself, or his said deputy in that behalf" (quoted in Gurr 72).

	You can see the working of a fictitious Master of the Revels in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'': Philostrate's job is to organise the shows, song, dance and plays for Duke Theseus' wedding.		You can see the working of a fictitious Master of the Revels in [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]'s ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'': Philostrate's job is to organise the shows, song, dance and plays for Duke Theseus' wedding.

Pankratz at 17:29, 16 January 2009

2009-01-16T17:29:49Z

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Originally the person who organised all court entertainments. When censorship became a monopoly of the government, the Master of the Revels became the de facto censor starting from 1581. The companies had to get a licence for every new play they planned to perform and the Master of the Revels had the right and the duty "to order and reform, authorise and put down, as shall be thought meet or unmeet unto himself, or his said deputy in that behalf" (quoted in Gurr 72).

You can see the working of a fictitious Master of the Revels in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'': Philostrate's job is to organise the shows, song, dance and plays for Duke Theseus' wedding.