The Vision of Delight was a Jacobean era masque written by Ben Jonson. It was most likely performed on Twelfth Night, January 6, 1617 in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, and repeated on January 19 of that year.
The Vision of Delight was first published in the second folio collection of Jonson's works in 1641.
The scholarly consensus favors the view that the masque was designed by Inigo Jones, though no firm historical evidence necessitat...
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