The Fortvnate Isles and Their Vnion celebrated in a Masqve design'd for the Court, on the Twelfth Night. 1624

[1625 Jonson, Benjamin, known as Ben] (1573?-1637). The Fortvnate Isles and Their Vnion celebrated in a Masqve design’d for the Court, on the Twelfth Night. 1624. [London]: np. Rpt. in Ben Jonson. Volume VII The Sad Shepherd The Fall of Mortimer Masques and Entertainments. Ed. C.H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson. Corr. ed. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1963), 707-729, with a note on the text on 703-704; in Ben Jonson: Complete Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 433-53; and in Ben Jonson: Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), 275-95; and. ed. Martin Butler in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 685-714. L, MoU-St, O, PSt

Masque performed before King James I/James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) just before his death. It depicts Britain as one of the Fortunate Isles of classical mythology. One of the islands is Macaria or blessed and is joined to Britain. Includes anti-Rosicrucian satire.