Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… Met Museum, 32.35(80), 1724. Abstract Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the fashionable centres of the metropolis, … the masquerade as a form of sociable entertainment developed in a twofold manner: as a crowd event of the newly emerging public sphere and a selective elitist assembly, deriving from the tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century … Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984). 5 . Edmund Law, A Defence of Mr. Locke’s Opinion Concerning Personal Identity (Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1769), p. 40. In a phenomenological approach, …
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