In one scene in the series, there's a night scene of some drama being performed which I thought was an Atellan Farce. Watching the program again, it seems more likely to be an early pantomime, the genre of which was becoming very popular at this time. Or perhaps it was somewhere between the two ... as far as I know, they did not have masks in pantomime (although they did in mime, but that was more of a solo dance performance) ...