 The libretto also draws on other contemporary accounts and fiction.Chorley noted in his preface to the libretto that his "fancy was directed" to the subject matter not only for its "local interest" (Kenilworth is near Birmingham), but because he had long enjoyed Scott's "wondrously musical, but as wondrously simple" description of Elizabeth's arrival for the masque.Chorley does not allude to it, but Michael Costa had composed a ballet on the subject of "Kenilworth" in 1831.