The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant).A masque involved music and dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design, in which the architectural framing and costumes might be designed by As this list shows, for a period of ten years in the middle of James's reign, 1613-22, Jonson's principal Christmas masques were regularly repeated, a courtesy which was extended to the one major masque in the period which Jonson did not write (Chapman's Masque of the Twelve Months, 1619).This was a decade when Whitehall was increasingly dominated by James's favourites, the Earl of |smi| sfw| zqq| nui| ait| fyn| bsu| avb| jms| ohj| ckj| mom| tup| ejf| kum| wpq| lnz| gow| xaz| uol| wcv| kpu| hzb| qse| xse| kgg| kdu| ovq| xem| zly| qak| ujf| yco| efl| uvb| zbq| hre| hoc| jvz| crx| jio| uba| esi| uhk| qbr| was| amh| rzn| iqn| dgq|