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- The_Entertainment_at_Britain's_Burse comment "The Entertainment at Britain’s Burse is a newly discovered masque (kind of play) written by Ben Jonson and commissioned by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in celebration of the opening of the “New Exchange” (essentially a shopping mall). This masque was discovered by James Knowles and published in 1997. It is an unusual Johnson text because it seems to be in celebration of consumer culture while so many of his other plays and poems condemn it—though there might be some satire intended.".