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English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… Bull at the Italian Opera', MetMuseum, 59.533.1426, 1811. Abstract In the so-called ‘ long ‘ eighteenth century (starting in 1660), the theatre can be seen as sociable space more than as a site for a purely aesthetic experience. The … of the debate, see Harold Love, ‘The Myth of the Restoration Audience‘, Komos: A Quaterly Journal of Drama and the Arts of the Theatre 1 (1967), p. 49-56; A. S. Bear, ‘Criticism and Social Change: the Case of Restoration Drama‘, Komos … King Charles the Second (London: J. Mawman, 1669). 3 . Karl Philipp Moritz, Travels, chiefly on foot, through several parts of England, in 1782. Described in letters to a friend, by Charles P. Moritz, a literary gentleman of Berlin. …
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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 …
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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… here did commend it to us’ 1 Indeed, the London theatre was not merely a place where one enjoyed aesthetic pleasures and artistic representation; during the long eighteenth century in particular, it was, perhaps above all else, a highly valued space of sociability. The specific qualities of theatre … At the first Play presented at the Cock-pit in Whitehall,’ 19 November 1660) There were other changes to mark the departure from Elizabethan tradition: the two playhouses were shifted westward towards Westminster, and ticket prices rose …
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