masque
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The actual transformation occurs in Jonson’s subsequent masque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The masque, performed by gentle spirits, enchants the betrothed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
By the time you get to the masque near the end, featuring impenetrable spoofs of the nine classical “worthies,” you may doubt young Shakespeare’s judgment of worthiness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The spirit trumpet is one of a number of arcane and intriguing objects in Linder’s exhibition, which is titled The House of Fame, in tribute to a Ben Jonson masque and Chaucer’s dream poem.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
On the last night of Yule week there was a royal masque held at the palace, where Prince Aidan would himself be attending.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
The sort of masques that influenced “The Tempest” were designed to show royal authority bringing order out of chaos.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2016
This was a 21st-century equivalent of those court masques loved and indulged in by Tudor monarchs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
Mr. Sams modeled the tone of his libretto on the 18th-century English pastiches and masques written by John Dryden and Alexander Pope.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2011
“As You Like It” and “The Tempest” contain festive masques with dancing.
From Washington Post
Parties, fancy balls, and private masques, are given, and kept up till morning.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
