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Definition of Revels
1. revel [v] - See also: revel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revels
Literary usage of Revels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1901)
"His further discussion of this and the other revels companies seems to me
inadequate ; but since it does not affect the dates of any of the Beaumont and ..."
2. English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642 by John Tucker Murray (1910)
"30, 1629, a licence was granted by the Master of the revels to Robert Kimpton or
Kempston, Nathaniel Clay, Thomas Holman, and others.2 This licence they ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Sir George Due and the office of the revels. The following letter from Sir ...
Buc was Master of the revels during the last six years of Shakespeare's life ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"Sir George Buc and the office of the revels. The following letter from Sir ...
Buc was Master of the revels during the last six years of Shakespeare's life ..."
5. Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 by Bruce A. Ragsdale, Joel D. Treese (1996)
"revels attended various schools and seminaries and Knox College in ... revels served
in Vicksburg, Mississippi, as chaplain of a black regiment and ..."
6. The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: And by John Payne Collier (1879)
"Sir George Buc became Master of the revels in 1610 ; and in 1612, Sir John Ashley
obtained a grant of the reversion of the office, on the death of Sir ..."
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