zabeta

Updated: May 28, 2025

It partakes of the nature of the masque in that the whole composition centres round a compliment to the Queen, Eliza or Zabeta a name which, as Dr. Ward notes, Peele probably borrowed along with one or two other hints from Gascoigne's Kenilworth entertainment of 1575.

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England