This essay analyses the linguistic, symbolic and visual elements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean masque which Pope might have borrowed, or alluded to, in his Dunciad, in order to portray instances of mock kingship, of the monstrous body, and the debasement of alchemic as well as other kinds of knowledge.

"Then Rose the Seed of Chaos": Masque and Antimasque in "The Dunciad in Four Books"

TOSI, Laura
2005-01-01

Abstract

This essay analyses the linguistic, symbolic and visual elements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean masque which Pope might have borrowed, or alluded to, in his Dunciad, in order to portray instances of mock kingship, of the monstrous body, and the debasement of alchemic as well as other kinds of knowledge.
2005
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