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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spectacles & performances Literature Examplesofmasquemasque The way historians have used drama andmasqueprovides useful insights.From theCambridge English Corpus This work was, of course, technically a civic pageant, not a courtmasque.From theCambridge English Corpus We must remember thatmasqueperformances were great occasions, replete with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery.From theCambridge English Corpus The transition from stage to gardens, from a passive to an active entertainment, suggests that themasqueresonated uniquely with audiences.From theCambridge English Corpus But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as themasquecontains nothing but pure sycophancy.From theCambridge English Corpus In this shortmasque-like work, the four elements of earth, air, fire and water present themselves and pay their obeisance to the new monarch.From theCambridge English Corpus Not even the world ofmasquewas free from such ambivalences.From theCambridge English Corpus To complicate the issue, the degree and nature of political content in these operas, masques and plays is far from a settled matter.From theCambridge English Corpus There is a rich literature on the politics of festival, and masques have recently attracted the serious attention they deserve.From theCambridge English Corpus Given the continental analogues andmasquebackground, we should certainly expect that many late seventeendi-century operas would be both political and inclined to allegory.From theCambridge English Corpus Themasquewas a kind of staging or realization of fantasy, its fabulous metamorphoses conjoining real and ideal.From theCambridge English Corpus They reveal that the play and themasqueshare much in terms of imperial iconography, though the masque is eminently more explicit in the manner in which it does this.From theCambridge English Corpus Hume defines the turn-of-the-centurymasqueas ' celebratory/mythological, short and musical'.From theCambridge English Corpus 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.From theCambridge English Corpus Masquescholarship 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.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |