Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… Plagnol-Diéval, Le théâtre de société, un autre théâtre ? (Paris: Champion, 2003), p. 11. 3 . Voltaire’s letter to the d’Argentals, 8 March [1762], D10366: ‘But what to do with three hundred people standing outside in the snow … even between peers, who might view a performance, applaud it loudly, and then exchange a barrage of criticisms in their letters to friends and family members. Mme de Staal-Delaunay was one such. During a visit to the duchesse du Maine, she … and extravagantly executed her role, [that she] took real pleasure in it,’ 6 yet took every opportunity in her letters to stigmatise the marquise for how she carried on when with Voltaire: ‘They wish neither to play nor to take …
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