A COMMUNITY MASQUE
Of the Art of the Theatre

Devised and Written to Commemorate the
Tercentenary of the Death of
SHAKESPEARE

Illustrations by
Joseph Urban & Robert Edmond Jones

TO · THE · ONLIE
BEGETTER · OF · THE · BEST
IN · THESE · INSUING
SCENES · MASTER · W · S


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS

Cover Design: “When the kings of earth clasp hands”
  (Act II, Second Inner Scene).
  By Robert Edmond Jones.
Preliminary Sketch of Setebos.
  By Joseph Urban
[Frontispiece]
facing page
Ground Plan for Auditorium (with Stages
  of Masque Proper and Interludes).
  By Joseph Urban
[xxx]
Design of Stage for Masque Proper.
  By Joseph Urban
[xxxii]
Preliminary Sketch for Seventh Inner Scene.
  By Robert Edmond Jones
[98]
Preliminary Sketch for Tenth Inner Scene.
  By Robert Edmond Jones
[138]
APPENDIX
Inner Structure of Masque (Chart).
  By Percy MacKaye
[154]
A Community Masque Audience (Photograph).
  By E. O. Thalinger
[156]
Community Masque Organization Plan (Chart).
  By Hazel MacKaye
[158]

CONTENTS

page
Preface[xiii]
Masque Structure[xxix]
Persons and Presences   [xxxi]
Prologue[ 3]
First Interlude[32]
Act I[34]
Second Interlude[76]
Act II[78]
Third Interlude[110]
Act III[111]
Epilogue[142]
Appendix[147]