The Masque of the Inner Temple and Grayes Inne

1. The Masque of the Inner Temple and Grayes Inne was originally performed at Court on 20 February 1612 as part of the festivities for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of James I. It was published (in quarto format) in the following year and then again in the 1647 first folio.
   
   
2. The quarto text is presented in four fomats
   
   • Full text  (???KB)
   • Page by page as it originally appeared.
   • Concordance to the mask and commentary.
   • As a rich text file (??KB)
   
   
   
3. It is noteworthy that the masque is the only previously published work to appear in the first folio which, as a matter of policy, omitted all other previously published material. However, the edition included in the first folio omitted much of the descriptive material included in the quarto text. The general consensus is that the work was written by Beaumont alone.
   
   
4. This is crap, rewrite it. Interestingly, the masque has been used to help date the composition of Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen to sometime around, but not before, the mask's performance at Court. This is because The Two Noble Kinsmen contains a scene that is generally believed to have been directly borrowed from a masque. Based upon the assumption that it would have been inappropriate to perform the material at Court after it had been performed in the public theatre, the The Two Noble Kinsmen's composition is dated soon after the Court performance, c. 1613.