English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… (starting in 1660), the theatre can be seen as sociable space more than as a site for a purely aesthetic experience. The sociability of the theatre however goes far beyond the space of the physical theatre itself. Theatre is also at the … Travel Perhaps more than a place for aesthetic pleasure, the theatre is above all one of the main sites of city sociability in the London of the long eighteenth century. Although the audience was not as socially diverse as during … Translated from the German by a lady (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795). But what was the impact of transnational sociability on the English stage? Transnational contact between theatrical circles followed a logic at least partially …
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