In the tradition of masque, Louis XIV danced in ballets at Versailles with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The masque has its origins in a folk tradition where masked players would unexpectedly call on a nobleman in his hall, dancing and bringing gifts on certain nights of the year, or celebrating dynastic occasions.

Milton ’ s masque Comus was first performed in the Great Hall in 1634 and the tradition of a performance is continued each June and July when a Shakespearean play is performed in the open air within the Inner Bailey, as part of the successful Ludlow Festival.

Dido and Aeneas was Purcell's first ( and only ) all-sung opera and derives from the English masque tradition.

At Sceaux he produced operas and was in charge of the sixteen bi-weekly Grandes nuits in the season of 1714 – 1715, for which he produced interimèdes and allegorical cantatas in the court masque tradition, and other music, in the company of the most favoured musicians, for the most select audience in France.

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 ).

The English semi-opera which developed in the latter part of the 17th century, a form in which John Dryden and Henry Purcell collaborated, borrows some elements from the masque and further elements from the contemporary courtly French opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The common name comes from the Ojibwa word maashkinoozhe, meaning " ugly pike ", by way of French masque allongé ( modified from the Ojibwa word by folk etymology ), " elongated face.

It is interesting that a play which is so steeped in esoteric imagery from alchemy and hermeticism should draw on the Mysteries for its central masque sequence.

" From this time forward, Anne ’ s health deteriorated, and she withdrew from the centre of cultural and political activities, staging her last known masque in 1614 and no longer maintaining a noble court.

His title he took from Thomas Nash, whose masque < ref > It was a " comedy " when it was printed, in 1600 as A Pleasant Comedie, call'd Summers Last will and Testament

An edition of sixty-three items of music for the English court masque from 1604 to 1641, Brown University Press.

Other texts, especially from the symbolist writers, may have influenced Chambers as well: " Le Roi au masque d ' or " (" The king in the gold mask "), a short story written by Marcel Schwob — a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde — was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris.

The inspiration for the name came from John Milton's Lord of Misrule in his masque Comus.

An extract from this masque is given in Lamb's Dramatic Poets, and was highly praised by Coleridge.

** News from the New World Discovered in the Moon ( masque )

* January 6-Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.

* February 3-Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson / Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.

The word " mask " appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque " covering to hide or guard the face ", derived in turn from Italian maschera, from Medieval Latin masca " mask, specter, nightmare ".

Bazeries verified General Bulonde was disgraced and removed from command, so he reasoned 330 and 309 stood for masque and a full stop.

He goes to the manor, but learns from Jacqueline that Danielle has been sold to Pierre le Pieu, a man who seems to have sexual advances on Danielle, just after the masque, so he sets out with Laurent to rescue her, but finds she has freed herself.

Her brother-in-law Geoffrey Keynes asked her to provide scenery and costumes for a proposed ballet drawn from William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job to commemorate the centennial of Blake's death ; her second cousin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, wrote the music to the work which became known as Job, a masque for dancing, the premiere of which took place in Cambridge in 1931.

The king was advised to be distracted from the burden of government, and when the queen hosted a masque for a lady-in-waiting in 1393, it resulted in the disastrous event known as Bal des Ardents.

The band was named after Comus ( a masque by John Milton ), and is also from the name of the Greek god Comus.

Ben Jonson in England referenced the idea, related in meaning to Francis Bacon's House of Solomon, in a masque The Fortunate Isles and Their Union from 1624 / 5.

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 a renowned architect, to present a deferential allegory flattering to the patron.

A particularly elaborate masque, performed over the course of two weeks for Queen Elizabeth, is described in the 1821 novel Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott.

The masque featured elaborate dancing, and the sophisticated special effects that were Jones's specialty: for example,

The other was the extreme elaboration of the courtly masque being conducted at the same time by Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones.

Yet Shakespeare's late plays have a distinctive aura to them, with elements of tragicomedy and masque blended with elements of comedy and romance and pastoral – not into a chaos as might be expected, but into coherent, dramatically effective and appealing plays.

They agree to meet the next day, but she returns home so late she loses her temper in the morning, then punches Marguérite in the eye when she discovers Marguérite intends to take her mother's wedding dress and wear it to the masque.

John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.

At the same time, the French masque was gaining a firm hold at the English Court, with even more lavish splendour and highly realistic scenery than had been seen before.

Polyphemus sings in Georg Friedrich Händel's popular 1718 setting of Acis and Galatea, an English language pastoral opera or masque with the libretto set by John Gay to Ovid's Metamorphosis.

In As You Like It, the exiled duke and his men " live like the old Robin Hood of England ", while Ben Jonson produced the ( incomplete ) masque The Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of Robin Hood as a satire on Puritanism.

* The word " masque " is first used to denote a poetic drama.

* January 1 – James I of England, theatre-going and literary king with absolutist aspirations, attends the masque The Golden Age Restored, a satire by Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite Somerset.

** " Father Christmas " is a main character of the Christmas masque written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England.

The Mattachine Society was named by Harry Hay at the suggestion of James Gruber, inspired by a French medieval and renaissance masque group he had studied while preparing a course on the history of popular music for a workers ' education project.

After about 1610, the new hybrid sub-genre of the tragicomedy enjoyed an efflorescence, as did the masque throughout the reigns of the first two Stuart kings, James I and Charles I.

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical.

Pierrot fin-de-siècle, ou, Les Métamorphoses d ' un masque.

In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the masque that Prospero conjures to celebrate the troth-pledging of Miranda and Ferdinand echoes the Eleusinian Mysteries, although it uses the Roman names for the deities involved-Ceres, Iris, Dis and others-instead of the Greek.

Robin Goodfellow is the main speaker in Jonson's 1612 masque Love Restored.

Later, in the court of James I, narrative elements of the masque became more significant.

William Shakespeare wrote a masque-like interlude in The Tempest, understood by modern scholars to have been heavily influenced by the masque texts of Ben Jonson and the stagecraft of Inigo Jones.