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
It even includes the often-cut Act IV masque, in which goddesses arriving to bless the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand wear what look like organza parade floats.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018
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
Its Baroque references connect medieval France to the glittery splendor of 17th-century allegorical court masques.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
“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
“As You Like It” and “The Tempest” contain festive masques with dancing.
From Washington Post
Eight platforms had been constructed in different parts of the town on which were to be enacted masques and allegories.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne
