Crossword-Solution: ANTIMASQUE 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

But Jonson gave dramatic value to the masque, especially in his invention of the antimasque, a comedy or farcical element of relief, entrusted to professional players or dancers.

That _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ borrows its antimasque from our friend Beaumont's _Maske of the Inner Temple_, which was presented in February 1613, may be construed as indicating that he, too, still had some connection with Shakespeare's company.

His Nymphs, Hyades, blind Cupids, and half vivified Statuas from Jove's altar, of the first antimasque occasioned great amusement, so that the King called for them again at the end--"but one of the Statuas by that time was undressed." And the May-dance of the second, with its rural characters--Pedant, Lord and Lady of the May, country clown and wench, host and hostess, he-baboon and she-baboon, he-fool and she-fool--stirred laughter and applause that drowned the music.

Fame, the accredited mouthpiece of the author, is by far the most important personage in the Antimasque.

Not one of the Mutes ever opens his mouth, and all that the audience knows of them is told by The Curious, whose function is to connect the Antimasque with the Masque and act as nomenclators for the elephantine poet and his suite.