Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… Image Jan Huber, ‘Voltaire on the theatre scene’, Wikimedia Commons, 1750-1775. Abstract Society theatre was a highly prized activity during the eighteenth century, especially in France. In salons and estates, both grand and modest, people of the same society and social stratum engaged in amateur theatre. Private theatre performances were a practice in which worldliness … this entry will evaluate the role of worldly connivance in the constitution of collective taste. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Aesthetics Community Entertainement Taste Theatre Performing plays in one’s home was not specific to the …
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