The early modern English masque is a hybrid form of entertainment that included music, dance, poetry, and visual spectacle, and for which there is no modern equivalent. This dissertation looks at four incarnations of the Elizabethan and Jacobean masque: the court masque, the masque embedded in the progress entertainment, the masque embedded in the commercial play, and the masque embedded in the commercial play performed at court. This study treats masques as a form of elite theatre (that is, theatre for, by, and about elite figures like monarchs and aristocrats) and follows them from the court to the countryside, through the commercial playhouse, and back again to the court in pursuit of a more nuanced picture of the hybridity and flexibility of early modern English performance culture.

Cette thèse s’articule autour des transmissions ultra-large bande à impulsions radio dans les réseaux de capteurs. Ces réseaux dotés de la structure point à point sont capables de générer une quantité suffisamment élevée d’interférences pour rendre les communications peu fiables. La technique utilisée pour séparer les données est la modulation par position d’impulsion qui distingue les données en leur attribuant des décalages temporels différents. Il s’agit, dans ce travail, de faire des propositions pour réduire ces interférences tout en respectant les réglementations (masques spectrales) sur les fréquences radioélectriques, imposées dans les pays où ces réseaux seront amenés à être utilisés. A titre indicatif, cette thèse ne fait référence qu’au masque États-Unien. Toutefois, les résultats obtenus sont applicables à tout autre masque. Les masques étant fortement restrictifs, nous nous sommes donc intéressés, de prime-abord, à l’aménagement du spectre des signaux émis, afin de permettre une utilisation optimale du peu de puissance disponible. La proposition que nous faite, à cette fin, donne des résultats intéressants. Ensuite une modélisation analytique prenant en compte la précédente alternative permet d’évaluer numériquement les performances. Ces dernières sont comparées à celles obtenues par des simulations de type Monte-Carlo. Il s’avère que le modèle est suffisamment précis pour servir de base à une optimisation, à la fois, des performances et de l’occupation spectrale. Les résultats obtenus montrent que notre proposition permet de fiabiliser les transmissions au sein des réseaux de capteurs sujets à de fortes perturbations dues à l’accès multiple. / This thesis focuses on impulse radio Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) transmissions in ad hoc sensor network. Such networks are able to generate strong enough multiple access interference to be less reliable. The method used to distinguish data is the Pulse Position Modulation where different delay is assign to each data type. The purpose of this study is to suggest proposals to mitigate this issue while fitting with the radio waves regulations in the countries where these networks will operate. As a rough guide, this thesis only refers to the American UWB regulation. However, the obtained results are relevant to any kind of mask. The masks are highly restrictive, we therefore interested to the transmitted signals spectrum shapes, first, in order to guarantee an optimal use of the available power. The proposal we made for this purpose reveals highly interesting. Then an analytical model taking into account the last suggestion is built to numerically evaluate the performances. These performances are compared to the ones obtained with Monte-Carlo simulations. It appears that the model is accurate enough to be used in an optimisation process. This process aims to find data signals that give the best performances and the optimal spectral occupancies, at the same time. The obtained results show that our proposal allows to make more reliable transmissions in dense ad hoc sensor networks.

By dexterity, unbind walls of stone. There is no shrill scream, but rather the quiet enjoyment of joining the supportive forms of invisible culture. Premonitions, apparitions, illusions, allusions, and relationships make matter apparent. Redirect the energy of the brain to the hands like MacLeish's dumb, old medallions. Accept given gifts of thread. Take only right turns. For paradisal commands, you are sent and spiced. By immaculate hearts, you are loosed and enslaved. / Master of Architecture

The research is specifically concerned with the notion of the military masque as a projected extension of the history of masqueing behaviour evident in gay men's attire.The creative outcome of the project is a collection of five interchangeable masques, an animated poetic work and a series of photographic images.This exegesis therefore, seeks to contextualise the created artifacts. In doing this it posits a historical and critical framework that considers the hyper-masculine1 and its relationship to gay men's masqueing.21 In this exegesis hyper masculinity is taken to mean an exaggeration of stereotypical male beliefs and behaviors through an emphasis on virility, strength and aggression and dress codification.2 Frye (1957), in his Anatomy of criticism offers a useful definition of masque as I frame it in this thesis. The term may be understood as "a species of drama in which spectacle plays an important role and in which the characters tend to be, or become aspects of human personality, rather than independent characters" (pp. 365-7). In this respect the masque is something donned that presents a decodable identity extra to, or other than the actual personality of the wearer.

The research is specifically concerned with the notion of the military masque as a projected extension of the history of masqueing behaviour evident in gay men's attire.The creative outcome of the project is a collection of five interchangeable masques, an animated poetic work and a series of photographic images.This exegesis therefore, seeks to contextualise the created artifacts. In doing this it posits a historical and critical framework that considers the hyper-masculine1 and its relationship to gay men's masqueing.21 In this exegesis hyper masculinity is taken to mean an exaggeration of stereotypical male beliefs and behaviors through an emphasis on virility, strength and aggression and dress codification.2 Frye (1957), in his Anatomy of criticism offers a useful definition of masque as I frame it in this thesis. The term may be understood as "a species of drama in which spectacle plays an important role and in which the characters tend to be, or become aspects of human personality, rather than independent characters" (pp. 365-7). In this respect the masque is something donned that presents a decodable identity extra to, or other than the actual personality of the wearer.

<p> Recent scholarship has added to our knowledge about the court masque, reinforcing its significance for the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Milton's Comus has profited from such re-assessment so that its high valuation as dramatic literature need no longer be regarded as incompatible with its success as a court masque. The new seriousness of approach to the court masque in general and Milton's Comus in particular provides the impetus for an examination of the rest of Milton's poetic output for the purpose of tracing there the influence of his experience with the complimentary court entertainment.</p> <p> The court entertainment was encomiastic in intent, this encomium being patterned according to certain conventions. Paradise Lost, which praises God, uses a number of these conventions. Contrary to usual epic practice, Milton does not immortalize worldly conquests and compliment the statesmanship of his nation's leaders. Early notions of a British epic, to use the Arthurian or other indigenous material, were abandoned in favour of a work to celebrate the heavenly king and the spiritual kingdom. In the finished poem epic structures are interpreted in ways suggestive of the influence of court pageantry. Encomium of the heavenly king is expressed in the God-centred structure of Paradise Lost. The whole action of the poem focusses on the throne of the omniscient viewer. The angels sing and dance about this throne as the court danced before royalty in the court entertainment, and even creation is the setting for "a Race of Worshippers" (VII.630). A foil to the glory of Heaven, provided in the parodic activities of the fallen angels in Hell, suggests the conventions of the antimasque and the comedy of misrule. The victorious reign of Christ is celebrated, as many a pageant celebrated the reign of a seventeenth-century king, in a tournament. A mock battle in which no one is maimed, this culminates in the triumphal entry of Christ himself in a pageant chariot, symbolically banishing, rather than waging battle with, the forces of evil. In Satan's pilgrimage to earth even the traditional epic wanderings are transformed into an allegoric progress. The devices of the court entertainment inform the action of the poem, which is made up of processions, ceremonies and masques. The scenic spectacle, too, is influenced by the theatrical effects and iconography of royal pageantry.</p> <p> One might expect Heaven and Hell to be presented in terms of allegoric theatre, but in Paradise Lost even the garden itself is a golden world which works according to the pastoral conventions that so often informed court entertainments. Adam and Eve are the poem's legendary rulers. As he describes the pomp of the prelapsarian kingdom, Milton relies on a knowledge of contemporary pageantry. Here such pageantry expresses the perfection of the most perfect earthly kingdom of all. Referring to a legend often used to glorify the British court, Milton says of Paradise: "Hesperian Fables true, / If true, here only" (IV.250-51). To see Paradise Lost in the context of the contemporary pageantry and masque theatre is to see it not as history reconstructed, but as historic incident transmuted through the use of a series of literary devices into encomiastic fiction. The fictional world of the poem is designed to justify the workings of God's creation; it glorifies the providence of the omnipotent creator.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Évoquer l'iconographie des fêtes à la Renaissance revient à travailler sur les humanistes et les courants de la pensée néoplatonicienne qui influencèrent les artistes de cette époque et aboutirent au syncrétisme des arts dans les divertissements royaux. Dans l'art éphémère de la fête - entrées, mascarades, bals et ballets - les costumes des figures mythologiques, antiques et bibliques remis au goût du jour sur un mode ludique, actualisés par les nouveaux thèmes issus des voyages d'exploration - exotisme américain et tradition du vieux monde - sont transposés dans le contexte du XVIe siècle. Pour accompagner ce langage, tout un decorum est déployé qui fait évoluer la notion de spectacle et de ses lieux de représentation, aidé par l'actualité socio-politique faite tantôt de paix et d'alliances tantôt de guerres (de religions). La fête est un moyen idéalisé d'affirmer le pouvoir royal. En cela, elle devient un vecteur de communication, voire de communion. Somptueuses et novatrices, elles sont les prémisses de la magnificence des fêtes des siècles suivants. / Dealing with the iconography of fetes in the Renaissance means investigating into humanism and the neo Platonist currents of thought which influenced the artists of the time and led to the syncretism of arts in court celebrations.In the ephemeral art of revels -entries, masquerades, balls and ballets- the costumes of mythical figures from the Bible or the Antiquity were then brought back to the fashion of the sixteenth century with a playful twist and updated through the new themes inspired by the Great Explorations, such as the contrast between the exoticism of the New World and the traditions of the Old World. Along with those codes, the establishment of a new decorum allowed the evolution of the notion of performance and of the places best suited for theatricals. Social and political issues of a time fraught with religious wars, alliances and peace, also contributed in paving the way for such changes.Celebrations thus proved the quintessential instrument of the assertion of royal power, which turned them into vectors of communication, not to say communion. Both sumptuous and innovative, they foreshadowed the magnificent fetes of the following centuries.

"L’art du maquillage" (1997), a novel by Sergio Kokis, a Quebec author originally from Brazil, not only illustrates the theme of exile but also the universal theme of self discovery, making it a true bildungsroman. This thesis undertakes an analysis of the role of the regard — a concept difficult to translate that includes the idea of the gaze, the look, the eye, as well as one’s perception or point of view — in order to examine its impact on the protagonist Max’s search for identity. This is accomplished in conjunction with a study of the role of the paratext of the novel and various other themes such as counterfeiting, the role of the female figure as “other” and the question of “reality” and “truth”. By way of his encounters with Marilyn de Rosemont, Caroline, Brenda, Annette and Vera, as well as the influence of the artists imitated (notably Marc-Aurèle Fortin, René Richard, Egon Schiele and Otto Dix), Max describes his evolution as an artist and as a counterfeiter. By exploring the role played by the regard in the act of creation (lending particular attention towards the end to "Les langages de la création", an essay by Kokis himself) and in the search for self, we discover the transformative power it engenders and the fact that it is a plurality of regards that orient us in the world, in our interactions with others and in our self conceptions. This plurality of the regard is well illustrated by the combination of the written word and visual art chosen as the form of expression in this novel, resulting in a captivating example of the implications of the power of representation. The narrator’s story and the accompanying illustrations, as well as the works of art described therein, allow the reader to grasp a new understanding of the importance an individual’s point of view exerts on “reality”, and the complexity of the role the regard plays in every aspect of creation. / Thesis (Master, French) -- Queen's University, 2008-09-26 17:50:07.53

The purpose of this thesis is to show how the music of “The Masque of Angels” articulates and supports the drama. The various musical techniques which make the complete composition will be examined to show how the composer draws them into one statement and proves himself the dramatist. The effect of the music on the text and that of the text on the musical construction is investigated to gain a clearer concept of the composer’s intent and the opera’s value to the twentieth century listener.

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