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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 characters was …Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… Radical and Tory Westminster, 1780–1880 ‘ Parliamentary History (24, 2005), p. 183-206. Dickie, Simon, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011). … Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1994). Gatrell, Vic, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (New York: Walker and Company, 2006). Hawley, Judith, ‘ Taste and …Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… oubliée (Paris: Champion, 2015), p. 519. What mattered most was the idea of community: the sharing of tears and laughter where, for the length of a performance, all social differences were abolished. The duchess du Maine, the duc …Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Pocket Library or Parental Monitor (Edinburgh, 1793). But see p. 21 for concerns about spontaneous conduct, such as laughter or showing spirit while dancing, being read for deeper and damning significance. 7 Bonnie Hain and Carole … The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (London, Allen Lane, 2012). Dickie, Simon, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, …Street sociability [ Cities ]
… to the Neopicaresque (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), p. 113-139. 7 See Ronald Paulson, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). 8 Pierce Egan, Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of …Pagination
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