| Often the whole event was preceded by an antimasque, a comic or parodic version of the main drama itself. |
| The masque opens with an antimasque of witches, who exemplify on several levels Jonson's conception of a threatening feminine discursive power. |
| At Windsor, the rustics who dance in the antimasque ask how they themselves might become gypsies. |
| In particular, the dance steps associated with the antimasque were often inversions, or dance steps performed in reverse. |
| Pizzorno focuses on the Antimasque of Mountebanks, in which Paradox appears on stage as a character. |
