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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… Abstract Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in … with a democratic potential realized through a carnivalesque suspension of social hierarchies. At the same time, the masquerade phenomenon provides insight into the category of personhood that was negotiated through a sociable performance … ‘selves’ in the traditions of Locke and Hume. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Masquerade mask personal identity Haymarket John James Heidegger Theresa Cornelys Henry Fielding William Hogarth In …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… to familiarising the visitors with newly fashionable visual and musical culture: Italianate practices such as masquerades, exoticism with a Chinese pavilion, and concerts in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created … cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which flourished … 1742. It charged higher admission prices (usually 2 shillings on ordinary days, and up to 2 guineas – 42 shillings – for masquerades) than the Vauxhall pleasure garden on the opposite south bank of the Thames (1 shilling), so as to be more …

Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]

… to be the flaws of early nineteenth-century society.   People > Art and Literature Keywords Novels Journals Press Masquerade Vauxhall London Provinces Best known as a novelist and chronicler of London’s literary circles, Frances Burney … Place (where he would have been neighbour to the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu), and – after enjoying the balls and masquerades there with some trepidation – she is shocked to find he cannot pay the massive debts he has run up with the … for the first time, thus giving latter-day readers a good introduction to eighteenth-century conversations, plays, masquerades, balls, and notions of fun, though tinged with a moral preference for domestic activities on the part of the …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Tyers who bought shares in the garden, and was in charge from 1729 to 1767. He made it famous by setting up an outdoor masquerade in 1732 under the enticing Italian name of ‘ Ridotto al fresco ‘ ; since the event was attended by Frederick, …

Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… also show Arabella to have been a voracious consumer of fashionable entertainment. She went to plays, the opera, masquerades, attended assemblies, went to play at cards, bought lottery tickets and regularly took part in raffles. Her …

Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… , 234) Then he described public feasts, such as the one called al-Karnawāl (the Carnival), during which people could masquerade and disguise themselves as they pleased: men dressed up as women and women as men, the rich could pretend to …