
(from the article `Jonson, Ben`) ...The Masque of Queens (1609). In his masques Jonson was fertile in inventing new motives for the arrival of the strangers. But this was not enough: ... ...as well as social force. In 1605 Jonson and the scene designer Inigo Jones produced the first of many excellent masques, which they continued to ......
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a comic or grotesque performance, as a dance, presented before or between the acts of a masque.
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