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unusual facts about Master of the Revels



Bastian Pagez

The 19th-century historian Agnes Strickland considered his court role as equivalent to the English Master of the Revels; in England he was Mary's chamber valet and designed her embroidery patterns.

Samuel A. Tannenbaum

He believed the entire account book of the Office of the Master of the Revels was a Collier forgery—an extreme view that has found no other defenders; he was also convinced that Simon Forman's Book of Plays was a Collier forgery, a position that only a minority of commentators support.


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