...... Their Apparell was rich but too light and Curtizan-like for such great ones. Instead of Vizzards, their Faces, and Arms, up to the Elbows, were painted...you cannot imagine a more ugly sight than a Troop of lean-cheek'd Moors. ] Carleton's outburst is one of the most-used sources for criticism of the court...

...Their Apparell was rich, but too light and Curtizan-like for such great ones. Instead of Vizzards, their Faces, and Arms up to the Elbows, were painted...and white, and you cannot imagine a more ugly Sight, then a Troop of lean-cheek 'd Moors.52 Though I will return to the matter of Carleton's color prejudice...

...le décolleté et les avant-bras jusqu'au coude. Un témoin écrivit «[it] was Disguise suffisant, for they were hard to be known,; but it became them...cannot imagine a more ugly Sight, than a Troop of lean-Cheek'd Moors» (Dudley Carleton, cité dans Orgel and Strong, p. 89). On voit donc que même...

...the half legge."51 Carleton confirms the use of painting as opposed to masks: "Instead of Vizzards, their Faces, and Arms up to the Elbows, -were painted...Disguise sufficient, for they were hard to be known." In a letter from the day following the masque, he observes that their "black faces, and hands which...

...Their Apparell was rich, but too light and Curtizan-like for such great ones. Instead of Vizzards, their Faces, and Arms up to the Elbows, were painted...and white, and you cannot imagine a more ugly Sight, then a Troop of lean-cheek 'd Moors.1'' Although according to Carleton, the courtiers struggled to...

...Anne of Denmark's performance in the Masque of Blackness, a flat denial of beauty in non-white women: instead of visards their faces and arms up to the...more ugly sight than a troop of lean-cheeked Moors. 26 24 Anthony Gibson, A Woman's Woorth, defended against all the men in the world (London, 1599), p....

...parenthetically. comment reveals the anxieties the masque stirred up at court: "Instead of vizzards, their Faces, and Arms up to the Elbows, were painted...nothing so well as their red and white, and you cannot image a more ugly Sight, then a troop oflean-cheek'dMoors"n The anxieties partly stem from incongruity...

...Bevil. Their apparell was rich, but too light and curtizanlike for such great ones. Instead of vizzards, their faces, and arms up to the elbows, were painted...and white, and you cannot imagine a more ugly sight, then a troop of lean-cheek'd Moors. The Spanish and Venetian ambassadors were both present, and sate...

...faces, which he describes to Chamberlain as 'a very lothsome sight,' and, again, he remarks to Winwood, 'you cannot imagine a more ugly sight than a troop of leancheeked Moors.'2 The Twelfth Night masque of i6o63 celebrated the unfortunate union of the Earl of Essex and...