George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), favorite of James I and of Charles I as both prince and king, used skill in dancing, especially in masques, to compete for and retain royal favor. Masques in which he danced and masques he commissioned displayed his power with the rulers he ostensibly served. His example and teaching taught Prince Charles that through masque dancing he might win his father’s favor, and probably made Charles believe that his appearance in court masques of the 1630s would similarly win his subjects’ favor.

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Original publication: MacIntyre, Jean. "Buckingham the Masquer." Renaissance and Reformation 34 (3): 2010. 59-81. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v34i3.10817. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.