| 词汇 | masque |
| 释义 | masque noun[ C ] uk /mɑːsk/ us /mæsk/ a type of theatre entertainment including poetry, singing, and dancing, performed in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially at a royal court (= the official home of a king or queen)假面剧（16至17世纪流行于英国宫廷，包括诗歌、演唱、舞蹈等形式） Renaissance: 1501 to 1899 ancien régime auto-da-fé buccaneer bustle Carolean Elizabethan enlightenment Industrial Revolution Jacobean Pre-Raphaelite privateer reformation regency renaissance the First Fleet the Wild West Tory Victorian Victoriana Whig You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spectacles & performances Literature Examples of masquemasque The way historians have used drama and masque provides useful insights. This work was, of course, technically a civic pageant, not a court masque. We must remember that masque performances were great occasions, replete with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery. The transition from stage to gardens, from a passive to an active entertainment, suggests that the masque resonated uniquely with audiences. But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy. In this short masque-like work, the four elements of earth, air, fire and water present themselves and pay their obeisance to the new monarch. Not even the world of masque was free from such ambivalences. To complicate the issue, the degree and nature of political content in these operas, masques and plays is far from a settled matter. There is a rich literature on the politics of festival, and masques have recently attracted the serious attention they deserve. Given the continental analogues and masque background, we should certainly expect that many late seventeendi-century operas would be both political and inclined to allegory. The masque was a kind of staging or realization of fantasy, its fabulous metamorphoses conjoining real and ideal. They reveal that the play and the masque share much in terms of imperial iconography, though the masque is eminently more explicit in the manner in which it does this. Hume defines the turn-of-the-century masque as ' celebratory/mythological, short and musical'. The image of halcyon peace was never free from other representations and evocations of war, and the authors of masques acknowledged their anxieties about such evocations. Masque scholarship is currendy in a state of turmoil, and only a very rash outsider would undertake to pronounce on the content and meaning of masques with anything like assurance. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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