Renaissance court dramas {masque}| {mask} can be about myth or allegory and use costumed and masked nobles, who entered as if from afar, asked ladies to dance, and then left. Before masques, professional dancers, representing chaos, appeared as monsters or clowns, whom nobles then routed. Ben Jonson developed antimasques. Baroque musical masques had speaking parts separated by songs.
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