Enter into Masquerades

“He tried to make us act plays, and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.” (Shelley 5).

All three of the sets of characters mentioned are soldiers, warriors. The “heroes of Roncesvalles” were knights who, in 778, defeated Charlemagne and halted his conquest. (http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswarsto1000/p/roncevaux.htm) The Knights of the Round Table were warriors and counselors for King Arthur in the medieval times. And lastly, the “chivalrous train” questing after the “holy sepulchre” were the brave men who fought to keep the tomb in which Jesus was laid before resurrection from the hands of infidels. All three sets of men were adventurers, brave warriors and soldiers fighting for a cause.