A Deadly Performance

I am uncertain where this piece of information came from originally -- I neglected to write down the cite perhaps already transforming it into a scene I myself might write, while metally putting it into the "truth is stranger than fiction" category. 

"A troop of Mattacini (masqueraders) came to celebrate a bridegroom's wedding and invited him to join in and participate in the play. At one point he "appears" to be killed and is loaded up in a mock funeral. Only later does the bride and family discover that he was indeed strangled by his rival."