MASQUE

a kind of play which was 7 popular in England during the 16th id 17th centuries. It took the place of more modern private theatricals, the tfiormers, who wore masks, usually being zsons of rank and fashion. Performces of Masques were very common at e court during the period mentioned ove. The greatest poets of the time rote masques, the finest of these commitions, entitled Comus,” being the ork of John Milton, [s. 208]