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
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 Tempest” was performed at the court of King James I, and it may have been intended in part to showcase the multimedia marvels of Jacobean court masques.
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
Upon other occasions, several of which will be alluded to afterwards, masques were performed upon a more extensive scale.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
