Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… across the English Channel, with strictly British plot lines or national fairy tales. Her correspondence with Garrick, spanning a 12-year period from 1765 to 1777, underscores the close relationship between Franco-British sociability and theatrical production in the eighteenth century. In 1767, their exchanges would spark a debate on national prejudices, and in 1769, a quarrel over British theatre. The disputes between the two …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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