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Master of the Revels


 

Master of the Revels was an office within the British royal household that originally had minor responsibilities for overseeing royal festivities. Over time, however, the office grew in power to become responsible for stage censorship.

Further reading

  • Chambers, E.K., Notes on the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors (1906).
  • Clare, Janet, Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship (1990).
  • Dutton, Richard, Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama (1991).