Over these Masquesor "Operatic" entertainments Jonson and Jones quarrelled, as the former's grievance was that he received no more for his librettos than Jones did for his scenic devices.
In the following reign, the masques of the lawyers in no degree fell off with regard to splendor.
He wrote fifty Plays in all, whereof fifteen Comedies, three Tragedies, the rest Masques and Entertainments.
His Masques and Entertainments, too long here to write, were thirty and two, besides a Comedy of East-ward, hoe?
The crowd of masques which surrounded the Prince came forward tumultuously, and a hurried movement and cry ran through the people, half of whom were uncertain whether the settled order of the play was interrupted or not.
He cried himself to sleep: all through the night, amid fitful slumber, the crowd of masques jostled and mocked at him; the weird strains of unknown instruments reached his half-conscious bewildered sense.
Some of these occur in his two collections of miscellaneous verse, the Forest and Underwoods; others in the numerous masques which he composed.
The figures and actions of dancers in Masques were called motions.
In the masques and banquets with which Buckingham entertained the court, he usually expended, for the evening, from one to five thousand pounds.
The characteristics of Masques are there, for the first time, elaborately opened with the clear and penetrating spirit of that ablest of our dramatic critics.
We have had masques in palaces and also in gardens, and some, I own it, beautiful; for our palace on the hill affords fine vistas of cypress avenues and the distant plain.
The Swedish masques had many of them withdrawn from the gala on hearing the dreadful day of Nordlingen.
Again, therefore, the masques prepared to mingle in the dance; again the signal was given; again the obedient orchestra preluded to the coming strains.
After ceasing his work for the stage, Jonson wrote many masques in honor of James I and of Queen Anne, to be played amid elaborate scenery by the gentlemen of the court.
Upon the accession of James, Jonson's masques won him royal favor, and he was made poet laureate.
Masques and interludes--the latter a species of short farce--were popular at the court of Henry VIII.
In spite of Cecil's economy, the treasury was drained to furnish masques and revels on a scale of unexampled splendour.
The master and assistant-master of Pastimes were humming merrily on at theirmasques and triumphs, when, the King expired.
His odes and ballads, his psalms and satires, his masques and his georgics, are not bad, but they are mediocre.
He continued to produce masques and entertainments when called upon; but he was attracted by many other literary pursuits, and had already accomplished enough to furnish plentiful materials for retrospective discourse over pipe or cup.
Such events were usually celebrated with the accompaniment of plays or interludes, masques written specially for the occasion not having yet become fashionable.
The Carnival lasted for six months of the year, and was the occasion for masques and licence of every description.
It was to Mary, as Knox testifies, that the introduction into Scotland of those primitive dramatic performances known as Masques or Triumphs was due.
Not only were these masques performed in the large halls of the feudal castles, but in the open air also, near the little lake at the foot of Arthur's Seat.
Were our information about the masques acted at the Scottish Court less scanty, we should, doubtless, often find the names of the four Marys amongst the performers.
In 1616, the year of the death of Shakespeare, Jonson collected his plays, his poetry, and his masques for publication in a collective edition.
He wrote more masques than all his competitors together, and they are of an extraordinary variety and poetic excellence.
Jonson's literary rivalry of Daniel is traceable again and again, in the entertainments that welcomed King James on his way to London, in the masques at court, and in the pastoral drama.
Masques and Entertainments were published in the early folios.
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