Tempe Restored - Lawes and Comus

Lawes and Comus

The English composer Henry Lawes appeared in Tempe Restored, and two years later composed the music for John Milton's masque Comus (1634). Comus has clear resemblances with Townshend's work — to the degree that one scholar has called Comus a sequel to Tempe Restored. Alice Egerton, the young daughter of the Earl of Bridgewater for whom Comus was staged, participated in both productions. The music for Tempe Restored, composer(s) unknown, has not survived.