Lucie Skeaping investigates how this combination of theatre, dance and music developed from its origins in the mummer's play to the Jacobean spectacles at Whitehall and the sophisticated Restoration works of Dryden and Purcell.
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Lucie Skeaping investigates how this combination of theatre, dance and music developed from its origins in the mummer's play to the Jacobean spectacles at Whitehall and the sophisticated Restoration works of Dryden and Purcell.
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