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.

In Ben Jonson's Lovers Made Men ( 1617 ), " the whole masque was sung after the Italian manner, stilo recitativo ".

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.

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

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 ).

" started out as part of Alfred, a masque about Alfred the Great co-written by James Thomson and David Mallet which was first performed at Cliveden, country house of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

It remains among the best-known British patriotic songs up to the present, while the masque of which it was originally part is only remembered by specialist historians.

The most outstanding humanists, poets and artists of the day, in the full intensity of their creative powers, devoted themselves to producing masques ; and until the Puritans closed the English theatres in 1642, the masque was the highest artform in England.

In the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote Job, a masque for dancing which premiered in 1930, although the work is closer to a ballet than a masque as it was originally understood.

His designating it a masque was to indicate that the modern choreography typical when he wrote the piece would not be suitable.

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

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.

His first piece after Psyché ( 1671 ) was a kind of classical masque, Les Fêtes de l ' Amour et de Bacchus ( 1672 ).

In 1609, Inigo Jones appears as an architectural consultant at Hatfield House, making small modifications to the design as the project progressed, and in 1610, Jones was appointed Surveyor to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and in this position, Jones devised a masque for the Prince and was possibly involved in some alterations to St James ’ s Palace.

No doubt this was due to the nature of the media in which he mainly worked, the masque and the song-book.

** " 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.

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

*" The Masque at Ashby ": John Marston's only extant masque, written for the Dowager Countess of Derby's 1607 visit to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, recreated by students

Salmacida Spolia was the last masque performed at the English Court before the outbreak of the English Civil War.

Although Rex is the titular " King " of Carnival, some observers believe that the Meeting of the Courts – in which Rex leaves his own festivities and is received by a seated Comus at the Mistick Krewe's bal masque – establishes Comus as the more prestigious of the two organizations in the Carnival hierarchy.

Ward be the most impressive masque thrown at any of the Inns.

He made a bitter attack on William Prynne, who had attacked the stage in Histriomastix, and, when in 1634 a special masque was presented at Whitehall by the gentlemen of the Inns of Court as a practical reply to Prynne, Shirley supplied the text — The Triumph of Peace.

In 1771 Thomas Arne's masque The Fairy Prince premiered at Covent Garden for which Colman wrote the libretto.

The masque claims to have been performed before " Flaminius and Clorinda, King and Queen of Cyprus, at their regal palace in Nicosia ," a fantasy with no relation to the actual history of Cyprus.

* January 21-Salmacida Spolia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace — the final royal masque of the Caroline era.

* February 6-Luminalia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at the English Court.

* February 18-Thomas Carew's masque Coelum Britannicum is staged at Whitehall Palace.

* July 30-Ben Jonson's final masque, Love's Welcome at Bolsover, is performed at Bolsover Castle.

* May 21-Ben Jonson's masque The King's Entertainment at Welbeck is performed.

* February 14-Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.

* January 9-Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace.

* Thomas Middleton & William Rowley-The World Tossed at Tennis ( masque )

" 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.

During this time, he wrote his one act opera Sous le masque ( 1927 ).

At the same time, the French masque was gaining a firm hold at the English Court, with lavish splendour and highly realistic scenery.

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.

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.

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.

Giuliano wants to cancel the masque that will celebrate his accession, but Marco is confident they can defend the palace against the Brethren, and that to cancel the masque would be a sign of weakness.

Based in style on a pre-civil war court masque, " the allegory itself so very obvious that it will no sooner be read than understood ", the hero and his supporters in the plot are mythological and Arthurian ; they are, however, quite clearly based on the Stuart dynasty, in a thinly veiled allegory.

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.

While no longer popular, there are some later examples of the masque.

The following year, Cibber portrayed the role of David in the original production of Handel's oratorio Saul and she appeared in the world premiere of her brother's immensely popular masque Comus.

Similar fashions became popular in England during the 17th century when they were worn by Queen Mary II and by Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England, for whom architect Inigo Jones designed a masque costume that fully revealed both of her breasts.

Décolleté styles were popular in England in the 17th century and even Queen Mary II and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England, were depicted with fully bared breasts ; and architect Inigo Jones designed a masque costume for Henrietta Maria that fully revealed both of her breasts.