Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… Private theatre performances were a practice in which worldliness and aesthetics intersected, inextricably linked with sociability. In exploring the practice, this entry will evaluate the role of worldly connivance in the constitution … the theatre. Dominique Quéro has described it as a veritable théâtromanie , an ‘Abderite fever.’ 1 Not one manor was without its improvised stage or private theatre. Works from the traditional repertory as well as texts created for the … and aesthetic complicity. Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval observed that society theatre was ‘amateur, aperiodic, and (with rare exceptions) unprofitable, 2 a practice so polymorphous as to be nearly undefinable. Though it is all but …
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