Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… Poésie, musique, danse et érudition au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Garnier, 2018), p. 394. Quéro borrowed the expression from a comedy by Paradis de Moncrif entitled Les Abdérites, in which the characters play with frenzy. 2 . … it was impossible to openly criticise certain forms of unseemly conduct in society, it was unthinkable to explicitly express a negative comment on someone’s play-acting, as might have been done for a public performance. But there was no … pleasure or ‘fashionable entertainment, 12 as Dominique Quéro has stated, it was a space where new tastes could find expression, and where new forms of theatre could be explored. Society theatre was essentially a testing ground for the …
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