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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… Lane Theatre was a crucible for the formation of social behaviour and the examination of sociability’s performative nature. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Cities Keywords Audience Coffeehouses Fame Rioting Theatre Spaces The name … Lane Theatre was a crucible for the formation of social behaviour and the examination of sociability’s performative nature. … Baer, Marc, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). Brown, Susan E., …
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Character of a Coffee-House (1673) [ ]
… cross'd the Channel. He is so refractory to Divinity that Morality it self cannot hold him, he affirms [Page 5] humane Nature knows no such things as principles of Good and evil, and will swear all women are whores, though his Mother and … Andrew of the Age, that scatters Wit wherever he comes, as Beggars do Lice, or Muskcats perfumes, and that nothing in Nature and all that can compare with him. You would think he had got the Lullian Art, for he speaks Extempore on all …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… phenomena experienced a wide range of emotions, including religious devotion, apprehension of the sublime powers of nature, and admiration for enlightened rationality. Experimentation elicited such feelings by bringing natural philosophy … sensations. They felt shocks or saw sparks fly as they approached or touched one another. Electricity was a force of nature generated from matter; it also stimulated an aesthetic sensitivity in the human body. This was a novel …
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