Spectacle of empire

"This new edition includes the original French script along with its long out-of-print English translations by American historical preservationist Harriette Taber Richardson and Canadian scholars Engene and Renate Benson; Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness (1605), an illustrative contemporary English imperial spectacle; and an extensive historical and critical introduction and bibliography by theatre scholar Jerry Wasserman."--BOOK JACKET.