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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