1) English Renaissance play 2) English-language opera 3) God of festive joy 4) God of mirth 5) God of revelry 6) Greek god 7) Masque by Milton 8) Milton masque
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In Greek mythology, Comus (Κῶμος) is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Bacchus. Comus represents anarchy and chaos. His mythology occurs in the later times of antiquity. During his festivals in Ancient Greece, men and women exchanged clothes. He was depicted as a young man on the p...
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[Arne] Comus is a masque in three acts by composer Thomas Arne. The work uses a libretto by John Dalton (1709-1763) that is based on John Milton`s 1634 masque of the same name. The work premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 4 March 1738. ==History== Comus was Arne’s first major success, and the masque enjoyed regular rev...
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[Handel] The masque Comus, or There in the Blissful Shades (HWV * 44) is a short version of John Milton`s Comus, based on a libretto earlier made by John Dalton for composer Thomas Arne`s own Comus (Arne). The sixty-year old Handel composed the setting in 1745 for the pleasure of other guests during his summer recuperation at the country se...
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(from the article `Arne, Thomas`) Arne was soon engaged to write musical afterpieces and incidental music for Drury Lane Theatre, and with Comus (1738), John Dalton`s adaptation of ... Milton`s most important early poems, Comus and Lycidas, are major literary achievements, to the extent that his reputation as an author would have ... ...
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In late Greek mythology, the god of festive mirth. He is depicted as a sleeping winged youth, crowned with flowers and holding a hunting spear and an inverted torch. The English poet John Milton in...
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In later Greek mythology, Comus was a god of revelry, banquets and nocturnal entertainments. He was generally depicted as a drunken youth. The depiction by Milton of Comus as a son of Bacchus and Circe was an idea thought of by Milton, and not the Greeks or Romans.
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HMS Comus was a British C Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1945. HMS Comus was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and carried a crew of 186. She was armed with four 4.5 inch dual-purpose guns; four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; six 20 mm anti-aircraft guns; four 21-inch torpedo tubes.
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an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
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