Masques, Mayings and Music–Dramas – Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth–Century Stage

Roger Savage

Introduction Books to Make a Traveller of Thee: Pilgrims, Vagabonds and the Monodramas of Vaughan Williams A Quarry for Profitable Working: Staging the Masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912 The Edens of Reginald Buckley: Temples and Tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury 'One of the Greatest Composers the World has Ever Seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell Revival 'What About an English Ballet?': Edward Gordon Craig, Music-Theatre and Cupid and Psyche Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-upon-Avon Connections of Sir John in Love Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace Vaughan Williams, the Romany Ryes and the Cambridge Ritualists Appendices