 "Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly" proved to be the last masque in which Anne of Denmark, King James I's Queen, performed.During the previous six years, the English Court of King James I had established a pattern of staging a major (and expensive) masque in the Christmas season, often on Twelfth Night.James's queen, Anne of Denmark, was a prime mover is these entertainments, and repeatedly performed in them herself, as in the masques of "Blackness" (1605), "Beauty" (1608), and "Queens" (1609).