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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… This created shared 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 … in 1764. There were fireworks sometimes. The ‘Etna’ show of volcanic explosions with Vulcan’s forge was added in 1792. Spectacle was thus a social bond, drawing on the current tastes for exoticism, on the popularization of recent science … while making its public feel connected to a restricted aristocratic society. This could be achieved through a culture of spectacle: visuality acted as a social bond. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter …

London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… making it a prime space of sociability. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Theatre Court Places of sociability Spectacle Samuel Pepys Women Samuel Pepys, celebrated diarist and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, is one of our main … and gender dynamics converged, making it a prime space of sociability. … Theatre … Court … Places of sociability … Spectacle … Samuel Pepys … Women … London theatres (and their audiences) …

English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… more largely from British sensibility. The advent of drama and dramatic comedy testifies to the importance of pathos and spectacle during this time. This type of theatre encouraged spectators to identify with the characters and their … more largely from British sensibility. The advent of drama and dramatic comedy testifies to the importance of pathos and spectacle during this time. This type of theatre encouraged spectators to identify with the characters and their …

Cabinets of curiosities [ Nature / Sports & Leisure ]

… suivants diverses catégories sociales. Tendues entre désir de savoir et plaisir de montrer, l’enjeu oscille entre spectacle et érudition. Les cabinets de curiosités engagent ainsi une sociabilité complexe. Places > Nature Places > … suivants diverses catégories sociales. Tendues entre désir de savoir et plaisir de montrer, l’enjeu oscille entre spectacle et érudition. Les cabinets de curiosités engagent ainsi une sociabilité complexe. … curiosity … museums … …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… amphitheatre, published his Rules to be observed on all battles of the stage . 1 The seven rules presented boxing as a spectacle to be enjoyed by a gentlemanly society, and aimed at domesticating the inherent violence of the sport by … aimed at disciplining both the fight and the bets surrounding it. Boxing was therefore framed as a social practice, a spectacle and a gambling opportunity. The tension between the violence allowed by the rules and the sometimes rowdy … of audience participation, on the one hand, and the aspiration to a polite sociability brought about by the gentlemanly spectacle was only solved in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the promotion of the so-called Marquess of …

Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… and gesture, what her expression meant.’ 6  Increasingly large audiences, however, still found much to enjoy in the spectacle the expanded theatre afforded. At the third theatre’s opening, the  Whitehall Evening Post  approvingly noted the audience’s splendour matched the new theatre’s grandeur during the showing of  Macbeth , which featured such spectacles as Hecate’s spirit descending on a cloud by means of a machine; a Fuseli-inspired crowd of evil spirits … engaged in the reciprocal cut and thrust of witty repartee to a more capacious space with increasing reliance upon spectacle to summon collective passions such as awe, wonder and sympathy .   Drury Lane’s Audiences Differently priced …