masque
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The actual transformation occurs in Jonson’s subsequent masque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
I also got a hydrating, collagen-boosting facial, an herbal hair steam and a conditioning hair masque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
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
This fall, there was another seventeenth-century masque playing in London, John Milton’s “Comus: A Masque in Honour of Chastity,” at the Globe’s candlelit indoor playhouse.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2016
Ash wondered suddenly if Ana and Clara were dancing with the hunters at the royal masque.
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
He was fond of gaiety, and had a succession of balls, masques, plays, and supper-parties.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
