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Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]
… reception at the good tables; familiar and domestick with persons of the first quality, and usually sent for at every meeting to divert the company; against which I have no objection. You go there as to a farce or a puppetshow; your … he has undertaken, and we are to suppose he is paid for his day's work. I only quarrel, when in select and private meetings, where men of wit and learning are invited to pass an evening, this jester should be admitted to run over his …
Conversation | Audience
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… as a microcosm of the restored social order in England after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to the truth of what they saw. … literary societies, student clubs, subscription libraries, and local improvement societies flourished, sometimes meeting in private dwellings but more usually in hired rooms in coffeehouses , inns, or taverns. Scientific topics were … individuals could socialize on an equal basis. It does not appear that experiments were performed in the society’s meetings, but empirical facts were frequently discussed. The members coalesced around acceptance of what were sometimes …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… Although the audience was not as socially diverse as during Elizabethan times, nevertheless the theatre remained a meeting and mingling place for different social groups, including merchants, apprentices, office-holders or state …
Audience | Diplomacy | Europe | Opera | Theatre | Translation | Travel
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… and freely received by the great number of persons that were present of all qualities’. 5 Coffeehouses enabled the meeting of commerce and a post-courtly elite, as the merchants’ efforts to disseminate these artefacts were met by the … in accumulating objects. The lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor for sociable meetings. Auction doubled as a spectacle where people looked at unique artefacts while observing how other bidders’ …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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