 The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses

The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses was an early Jacobean era masque, written by Samuel Daniel and performed in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace on the evening of Sunday, 8 January 1604.One of the earliest of the Stuart Court masques, staged when the new dynasty had been in power less than a year and was closely engaged in peace negotiations with Spain, "The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses" stood as a precedent and a pattern for the many masques that followed during the next four decades.