Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… musical accompaniment, spend the night dancing or gambling and finally reach the climactic, and quasi-ritualistic, unmasking. 1 . Meghan Kobza, ‘Dazzling or Fantastically Dull? Re-Examining the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade’, Journal … with these inferior Masquerades; for these are indeed no other than the Temples of Drunkenness, Lewdness, and all Kind of Debauchery. 2 As Terry Castle notes, mentions of masquerades for the lower classes were typically commented upon … Colonel Fitzroy who also afterwards appeared in another character. – Cherokee Chief, Mr Meadows, a new and very striking masque. – Cyrus, Sir William Wrottesley. – A Double Man, half Miller and half Chimney-sweeper, Sir Richard Philips: …
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