English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… find motivation in their own internal preoccupations, while ‘commoners,’ much like tragic heroes, were now entitled to express noble sentiments. 1 . Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay et Florence March, 'Introduction', Les Théâtres anglais et français (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Contacts, circulation, influences (Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016), p. 14. 2 . Félix Gaiffe, Le Drame en France au XVIIIe siècle (Paris : Armand … much the same to say of the play: It draws the attention, yes, but captures it not at all. It does not move you, it oppresses; nor does it make you weep, but asphyxiates; one wakes from it as if from a nightmare, with a belly full of bile …
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