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  1. Jul 7, 2024 · This chapter is mainly about one masque-wright—James Shirley (1596–1666)—who used absent-present jokes in his The Triumph of Peace (1634), and who actually staged a troupe of monkeys in Cupid and Death (1653). The intrinsic metatheatricality of apes meant that Shirley could use audience recollections of ‘baboons / In quellios’ to ...