Definition of antimasque. Meaning of antimasque. Synonyms of antimasque

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Definition of antimasque

antimasque
Antimask An"ti*mask`, n. A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also antimasque.] --Bacon.

Meaning of antimasque from wikipedia

- An antimasque (also spelled antemasque) is a comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque, a type of dramatic composition...
- Gudrun Rottensteiner: Metareferentiality in Early Dance: The Jacobean Antimasque / Karin ****konen: Textworlds and Metareference in Comics / Doris Mader:...
- would have been expecting, based on other masques of this time, that the antimasque would be dispelled by virtue (usually embodied by the King and Queen)...
- publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who also included an "antimasque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses", written in 1973 by Auden and...
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- formed in 2014 Antemasque (album), the 2014 debut album by Antemasque Antimasque, a 16th- and early 17th-century court entertainment This disambiguation...
- Prize the following year. She examined the progress of the masque and the antimasque in the history of English poetry, showing how the catholic Tudor court...
- masques of Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson settled into a form that had an antimasque preceding a courtly display, the two parts being linked by a transformation...
- as a subversion of the surface intent of the performance. ("But this antimasque quite eclipses its masque. The queens are mere wax-works after the witches"...