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Cupid and Death
''Cupid and Death'' is a mid-seventeenth-century masque, written by the Caroline era dramatist James Shirley, and performed on 26 March 1653 before the Portuguese ambassador to Great Britain. The work and its performance provide a point of contradiction to the standard view that the England of Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum was uniformly hostile to stage drama.〔A History Of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout (First Published 1962 (UK) by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London) - Chapter 10: The Mature Baroque: Vocal Music - p318 ''"Masques continued to be given privately throughout the period of the Civil war (1642 - 49), the Commonwealth (1649 - 60) and the early years of the Restoration of Charles II (reg. 1660 - 85). The most elaborate of these private entertainments was Cupid and Death (1653)..."''〕
==Background==
After the closure of the theatres in 1642 at the start of the English Civil War, Shirley earned a living as a schoolteacher. As part of his new occupation, he wrote dramas — morality plays and masques — for his students to perform. The final works of his career, including ''Honoria and Mammon'' and ''The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses'' (both published in 1659), were works for student performers. ''Cupid and Death'' is another work in this category, though its resemblances with the great masques of the late Stuart Court have been noted by critics — it "is much more like a Court Masque than any of Shirley's other school Masques".〔Edward Dent, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 160.〕 Perhaps this aspect of the work made it seem appropriate for the Portuguese ambassador, the Count of Peneguiaõ. Shirley's past Royalist connections with the Stuart Court, and even his Roman Catholicism, clearly (if surprisingly) did not stand as insuperable obstacles to a public staging of the work.〔Clare, pp. 153-4.〕
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