Voorbeelden van masque

• The way historians have used drama and masque provides useful insights.

• This work was, of course, technically a civic pageant, not a court masque.

• We must remember that masque performances were great occasions, replete with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery.

• The transition from stage to gardens, from a passive to an active entertainment, suggests that the masque resonated uniquely with audiences.

• But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy.

• In this short masque-like work, the four elements of earth, air, fire and water present themselves and pay their obeisance to the new monarch.

• Not even the world of masque was free from such ambivalences.

• To complicate the issue, the degree and nature of political content in these operas, masques and plays is far from a settled matter.

• There is a rich literature on the politics of festival, and masques have recently attracted the serious attention they deserve.

• Given the continental analogues and masque background, we should certainly expect that many late seventeendi-century operas would be both political and inclined to allegory.

• The masque was a kind of staging or realization of fantasy, its fabulous metamorphoses conjoining real and ideal.

• They reveal that the play and the masque share much in terms of imperial iconography, though the masque is eminently more explicit in the manner in which it does this.

• Hume defines the turn-of-the-century masque as ' celebratory/mythological, short and musical'.

• The image of halcyon peace was never free from other representations and evocations of war, and the authors of masques acknowledged their anxieties about such evocations.

• Masque scholarship is currendy in a state of turmoil, and only a very rash outsider would undertake to pronounce on the content and meaning of masques with anything like assurance.