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Masque by F. Paul Wilson

About 450 pages (134,990 words) in 20 products

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Masque Information
1,557 words, approx. 5 pages
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy. (A public version of the masque was the pageant.) Masque involved music and dancing,...


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Dayton Daily News
Masque
06/09/2006: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
The club's motto says it all -- "Not for Everyone/ Everyone Welcome." June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, and in honor of that I present a review of what may well be Dayton's proudest gay bar, Club Masque, 34 N. Jefferson St. downtown....
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Musical Times
Behind the masque
01/01/2000: 1,740 words, approx. 6 pages
WILFRID MELLERS welcomes a new study of a neglected yet valuable strand in English music-theatre Masked mysteries unmasked: early modern music theater and its Pythagorian subtext Kristin Rygg Pendragon Press (Stuyvesant, 2000); xxxix, 268pp; L32. ISBN 1 57647 035 0. PEOPLE HAVE...
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The New York Observer
Sublime Army of Shadows Remembers French Resistants
4/30/2006: 1,643 words, approx. 6 pages
Jean-Pierre Melville’s magnificent Army of Shadows (1969), from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel, is belatedly making its American debut at Film Forum on April 28 under the aegis of Rialto Pictures. It took Melville (1917-1973) 25 years to bring Kessel’s...
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The New York Observer
Sublime Army of Shadows Remembers French Resistants
4/30/2006: 1,644 words, approx. 6 pages
Jean-Pierre Melville’s magnificent Army of Shadows (1969), from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel, is belatedly making its American debut at Film Forum on April 28 under the aegis of Rialto Pictures. It took Melville (1917-1973) 25 years to bring Kessel’s...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Timothy Raylor
13,157 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following excerpt, Raylor discusses the function and sources of the Jacobean masque by examining the specifics of Viscount Doncaster's presentation of The Essex House Masque for King James and the French Ambassador.
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Critical Essay by Peter G. Platt
11,814 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following excerpt, Platt contrasts the rational literary aspects of the masque as embodied in Ben Jonson's work with the fantastic and visual qualities of Inigo Jones's contributions.
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Critical Essay by Lesley Mickel
11,240 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following excerpt from a larger study of Jonson's antimasques, Mickel provides an abstract of his argument that Jonson's antimasque is a complex, dialectical response to political and cultural events and thus helps to enforce the ideal of the masque.
 


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Masque by F. Paul Wilson

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