the first one performed in the new Banqueting House in Whitehall Palace, designed and built by Inigo Jones after the previous wooden structure burned down in January 1619. Still standing, the Banqueting House at Whitehall is often considered Jones's architectural masterpiece, and was the scene of many subsequent masques at the Stuart Court. Publication Jonson's text was published in quarto in 1622, shortly after its first performance. (The quarto is dated "1621," meaning it was issued prior to 25 March, the old New Year's Day in England. See: Old Style and New Style dates.) The masque was reprinted in the second folio collection of Jonson's works in 1641. Notes Sources Chan, Mary. Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. Leapman, Michael. Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance. London, Headline Book Publishing, 2003. Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Orgel, Stephen, ed. Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1969. Verity, Arthur Wilson, ed. Milton's Arcades and Comus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1891. Masques by Ben Jonson English Renaissance plays 1622 plays