| They resumed on Candlemas, and concluded with a masque presented before the Queen at Whitehall at Shrovetide. |
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| Lord Hunsdon's Men were still in favour at Shrovetide, when again they were the only company to perform for the Queen. |
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| In the rural Ireland of my youth, the three days prior to Ash Wednesday were known as Shrovetide and it was a time of eating, drinking, music-making and card playing. |
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| The granary of Plateliai Manor exhibits a display of Shrovetide masks, archaeological findings, old tools and household implements. |
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| Like Twelfth Night, Shrovetide was one of the key holidays when plays were performed at court, and at other institutions like the inns of court and the universities. |
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| At the centre of this tale was a Spanish village called Villanueva whose inhabitants held a Shrovetide fiesta each year at which a donkey was ridden by a fat, and often drunk, man. |
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| In the original, the characters — the clown Petrushka, the Ballerina, and the Moor — represent puppets, stock characters from the traditional Russian Shrovetide fairs, caught in a brutal and tragic love triangle. |
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| The Shrovetide processions take place in the town of Hlinsko and six nearby villages in the Hlinecko area of Eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. |
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| If your visit coincides with Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wednesday you'll be lucky enough to witness the 3 mile long Royal Shrovetide football competition. |
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| Make us smile with your photos of carnivals and other fancy-dress events like the Rio Carnival or the Shrovetide carnival of Fastnacht in Germany's Black Forest. |
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| Shrovetide football, as it was called, belonged in the 'mob football' category, where the number of players was unlimited and the rules were fairly vague. |
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| In 1708 Conti was appointed court theorbist in Vienna and in 1713 court composer. He wrote operas for Shrovetide, oratorios for Lent, cantatas, musicae sacrae and a handful of instrumental works. |
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| Other local customs include Castleton Garland Day and Ashbourne's Royal Shrovetide Football, played annually since the 12th century. |
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| Inscribes Shrovetide door-to-door processions and masks in the villages of the Hlinecko area on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. |
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| The most notable writer was the Meistersinger Hans Sachs, who transformed the bawdy Fastnachtsspiele into more acceptable farces with which to entertain Shrovetide carnival crowds. |
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| The folk football games of the 14th and 15th centuries, which were usually played at Shrovetide or Easter, may have had their origins in pagan fertility rites celebrating the return of spring. |
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| Fastnachtsspiel, also spelled Fastnachtspiel, plural Fastnachtsspiele or Fastnachtspiele, carnival or Shrovetide play that emerged in the 15th century as the first truly secular drama of pre-Reformation Germany. |
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| His 2,000 other poetic works include 200 verse dramas, 85 of which are Fastnachtsspiele, or homely comedies written to entertain Shrovetide carnival crowds. |
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| Other local customs include Castleton's annual Garland Festival and Ashbourne's Royal Shrovetide Football, played annually since the 12th century. |
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