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used mask in the manuscript but the first edition uses masque in the title. The poem has 372 lines, largely in four-line quatrains; two more quatrains appear in some manuscript versions.

Shelley had first enunciated and elaborated on his concepts of nonviolence and civil disobedience in his self-published pamphlet An Address, to the Irish People in 1812.

Literary criticism

Political authors and campaigners such as Richard Holmes

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