Hymen's Triumph by Samuel Daniel

by Samuel Daniel, John Pitcher (Editor)

Samuel Daniel's masque, Hymen's Triumph , was performed in February 1614, as part of the festivities at the wedding of Jean Drummond, daughter of Patrick, third Lord Drummond, to Robert Ker of Cessford, first Lord Roxborough. The text used in this reprint derives from the manuscript now in
Edinburgh University Library. This introduction gives a full account of the occasion and of the manuscript itself.

74 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Samuel Daniel was born in 1562 near Taunton in Somerset to a music-master. In 1579, Daniel was admitted to Magdalen Hall (now known as Hertford College) at Oxford University, where he remained for about three years and afterwards devoted himself to the study of poetry and philosophy.

Late in life, Daniel retired to a farm called The Ridge, near Beckington, in Somerset, where he died on 14 October 1619.