… two levels—on stage, and in the audience. It also fuelled the debate on Franco-British relations. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Keywords Anglomania Audience Emotions Enlightenment Friendship Theatre Translation ' It has been said … to debates surrounding theatre, culture, and morality. Sociability was a central issue in the debate. The discovery was part of a general wave of Anglomania which ‘manifested more readily in literature than in other domains. And though it was … of sociability. French theatre, suffused with this spirit, underwent a profound transformation that affected comedy in particular. Laughter was no longer the preordained response to a theatrical performance: the fate of the exemplary …