Sentence examples for * masques from inspiring English sources

The court masques served to introduce Italian staging to England.

He is perhaps best known for his masques.

Small onstage bands accompanied serenades, dances, and masques.

He also wrote masques, mythological cycles, and chronicle plays.

The French composer Karol Beffa, 33, dedicated his enigmatic, melodic and melancholy "Masques I" and "Masques II" to the Capu?

What were these "masques" that Ben Jonson devised?

The database also includes masques, entertainments, and closet dramas.

The masques are an alternative universe: often, the play unfolds in the real world and the masques in the realm of the supernatural.

He wrote a number of masques and occasional verses, most of which demonstrate some skill.

In his masques Jonson was fertile in inventing new motives for the arrival of the strangers.

It is a grisly study of the Sun King's propensity for dancing at his courtly masques.