Queen Anne and her ladies in waiting expand in their performance the court’s options and ways to experiencing masque 's event as they affirm the masque’s imperial political power and ideology through a display of their presence on the stage at banqueting hall conveyed throughout energies their acting and enacting as Masquers of the national subjects as well as exotic colonial ones into gendered female black bodies. Insert Note

190 on this point please also cfr Anne Dayle. The critic suggests that the female masquers would have descended accompanied by their own personal torchbearers, which would quite literally have enhanced the “radiance” of light around James in state, mirroring the visually enlivening of his fictive status as a sun