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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Anglais , featuring playwrights Edward Moore, Arthur Murphy, George Colman, and Hugh Kelly. 2 In 1776, inspired by her conversations with British friends visiting Paris, she penned her final novel , Lettres de Milord Rivers à sir Charles … of the salons—she was a woman of letters who found, in the epistolary dialogue, the perfect complement to the art of conversation. Though she was not fond of Richardson’s novels, nor the ‘rage for sensibility’ that had conquered Paris, 4 …
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… was implicated in a variety of sociable interactions. For example, larger great bills could become the subject of conversation on the city’s streets. In her memoirs, actress Charlotte Charke talks of the joy she felt 'not only in … houses, or pinned to cushions within the theatre itself. Within the sociable coffeehouse , they were catalysts for conversation regarding the latest playhouse drama, both on-stage and off. Playwrights and actors were regular patrons at …
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… de la domestic tragedy ', Littératures classiques (vol. 67, n° 3, 2008), p. 187-200. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology On Conversation (1756) The Object of the Dramatic Composition (1757) … French playwrights of the second half of the …
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