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  1. artificial covering for part or all of the
  2. face, or for the whole head, associated with
  3. ritual or theatrical performances in many
  4. cultures. Theatrical traditions using masks
  5. include ancient Greek drama (full head
  6. masks), Japanese No (facial masks), and the
  7. Italian commedia dell'arte (caricatured
  8. half-masks). In the 20th century masked
  9. performance has been re-explored in
  10. experimental and mainstream theatrical
  11. productions.
  12.