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… Press, 2020). _________ ‘Sarah Sophia Banks’s Private Theatricals: Ephemera, Sociability, and the Archiving of Fashionable Life’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction (vol 27, n° 3, 2015), p. 535-555. _________ Women, Sociability and Theatre … Press, 2020). _________ ‘Sarah Sophia Banks’s Private Theatricals: Ephemera, Sociability, and the Archiving of Fashionable Life’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction (vol 27, n° 3, 2015), p. 535-555. _________ Women, Sociability and Theatre …
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… (1810) and Lady Rachel Russell's letters in combination with a biography that she had authored (1819). 5 Her play, Fashionable Friends , was first privately performed at Strawberry Hill in 1801 and then in 1802 in Drury Lane , where it … and who had previously been an active agent in private theatricals, participated in the private staging of Mary's play Fashionable Friends in Twickenham. This comedy centres on a love and marriage plot while satirically unveiling intrigues, … Lady Russell Followed by a Series of Letters (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819). 6 . Mary Berry, The Fashionable Friends; a Comedy, in Five Acts (London: Ridgway, 1802); see also Susanne Schmid, ‘Mary Berry's Fashionable …
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Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… Theatre Performing plays in one’s home was not specific to the eighteenth century, but it is during this period that the fashion was at its peak. In the 1730s, the whole of France was completely enamoured of the theatre. Dominique Quéro has … to document the theatricals of the lower classes, we know that members of every social stratum participated in this fashionable pastime. Society theatre was as prized in aristocratic circles as it was in bourgeois homes. The originality … and sociability, that is at the core of private theatricals. Society theatre was thus not merely worldly pleasure or ‘fashionable entertainment, 12 as Dominique Quéro has stated, it was a space where new tastes could find expression, and …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… the exemplary characters was meant to stir up profound emotion in the spectator. The terms used most to describe the new fashion—bourgeois drama, bourgeois comedy, bourgeois tragedy, or domestic tragedy—speak to how it was in fact a hybrid …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… century, the flight of the aristocracy and gentry from the square accelerated, as they moved west to newer, more fashionable suburban developments like Mayfair. The last titled resident probably quit the area in 1757. The market …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
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English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… French with affectation often characterises comic butts, but conversely a correct mastery of the subtleties of French fashion and language may be a marker of social prestige, though not always. 10 France also served as a transit point for …
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