sentences:  "Cupid and Death" is another work in this category, though its resemblances with the great masques of the late Stuart Court have been noted by critics — it "is much more like a Court Masque than any of Shirley's other school Masques".Perhaps this aspect of the work made it seem appropriate for the Portuguese ambassador, the Count of Peneguiaõ.Shirley's past Royalist connections with the Stuart Court, and even his Roman Catholicism, clearly (if surprisingly) did not stand as insuperable obstacles to a public staging of the work.