Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… is traditionally attributed to the arrival of John James Heidegger (1659-1749), a Swiss impresario, who came to England in 1708. Heidegger recognised the commercial potential of masked assemblies and transformed them into public … to wear it for some time – puts off one mask and takes another’. 5 4 . Aileen Ribeiro, The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England, 1730-1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984). 5 . Edmund Law, … of Delaware Press, 1999). Wahrman, Dror, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale: Yale University Press, 2004) In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Roxana (1724) … Masquerades – sociable assemblies …
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