The ceiling of the Great Hall where the masque was performed
The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses was an early Jacobean-era masque, written by Samuel Daniel and performed in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace on the evening of Sunday, 8 January 1604. One of the earliest of the Stuart Court masques,[1] staged when the new dynasty had been in power less than a year and was closely engaged in peace negotiations with Spain,[2]The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses stood as a precedent and a pattern for the many masques that followed during the next four decades.
^A masque for male courtiers was staged two days earlier, on 6 January 1604; the text has not survived.
^The masque's theme of peace celebrated the ceasefire with Spain, proclaimed by King James in March 1603, and reflected the intense peace negotiations which were to culminate in the Treaty of London at Somerset House in August 1604 and its ratification at Valladolid the following year. Present at the performance was the Spanish ambassador, father of a writer of masques Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana. Barroll (ed.), p 175.
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