English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… he unmasks a local lord for abuse of power, finally revealing his identity. In both plays, friendship—a ‘beautiful sympathy’ that reflects the ‘fundamental longing of each soul for another’ , 8 —, is depicted as an exemplary sociable … of tears accompanied the euphoric gratitude and exalted altruism, until this empathy was transmuted into collective sympathy.’ (Marchand, Théâtre et pathétique , 726-27). Producing such acts of sociability on-stage gave ‘the bourgeois …
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