Masques, mayings and music-dramas : Vaughan Williams and the early twentieth-century stage /
Roger Savage.
- Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2014.
- ix, 390 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Books to make a traveller of thee: pilgrims, vagabonds and the monodramas of Vaughan Williams -- A quarry for profitable working: staging the masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912 -- The Edens of Reginald Buckley: temples and tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury -- 'One of the greatest composers the world has ever seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell revival -- 'What about an English ballet?': Edward Gordon Craig, music-theatre and Cupid and Psyche -- Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-upon-Avon connections of Sir John in Love -- Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace -- Vaughan Williams, the romany ryes and the Cambridge ritualists