Bergomask

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Ber´go`mask


n.1.A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(24) That he was a dancer may be inferred from pictures as well as from the dance for which Theseus calls at the end of Midsummer Night's Dream, a "Bergomask" (5.1.361).
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There are, indeed, thematic images of concord (and its absence) in personal and civil relations, and in cosmic manifestations.(2) Music also marks Titania's infatuation with Bottom, her reconciliation with Oberon, and signals the end of the action with a Bergomask dance.
Some puns on musical terms in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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