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Masques with music - Librettos

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    Comus. A masque. As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Altered from Milton.

    Milton, John, 1608-1674. | Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
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    The comick masque of Pyramus and Thisbe. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]
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    Telemachus. A masque. Set to music by Phil. Hayes, Bac. Mus.

    Graham, George, 1728?-1767. | Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]
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    King Arthur: or, the British worthy. A masque. Altered from Dryden, by David Garrick, Esq. And now performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The music by Purcell and Dr. Arne. The scenes by French and Carver.

    Garrick, David, 1717-1779. | Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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    Comus, a mask: (now adapted to the stage) as alter'd from Milton's mask at Ludlow-Castle, which was never represented but on Michaelmas-Day, 1634; before the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Bridgewater, Lord President of Wales. The Principal Performers were The Lord Brackly, Mr. Tho. Egerton, The Lady Alice Egerton. The musick was composed by Mr. Henry Lawes, Who also represented the Attendant Spirit.

    Milton, John, 1608-1674. | Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]
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