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… Legend Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. 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 …

… drivers to conspicuously display their control, daring, and skill. It was a carriage designed for performance and spectacle. This carriage model enabled people to perform their elite status to others and encouraged others to assess … commotion of the horses and phaeton obscures the elaborate coach in the background of the print that was all part of the spectacle and performance of the carriage promenade on the Rotten Row. Therefore, the phaeton both enabled new forms of …

… for entertainment purposes in places the French called al-tiyātr ( le theatre ), a venue for al-sibiktākil (the spectacle). He observed all these activities with the curiosity of the traveller but also with the gaze of the reformer … as follows: amusement improves the morals ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris , 228-229). 5 For al-Tahtāwī, the greatest spectacle in Paris was the one called al-ūbbira (the opera), in which the best musicians, dancers and singers performed …

… toujours les journaux anglais et par contrecoup les journaux de Paris. S.M.L. a assisté aux courses de chevaux d’Ascot, spectacle tout anglais, et elle a fondé un prix de 12,500 fr. qui seront payés annuellement toute sa vie durant. Une … ainsi leurs possibilités de gain, et des commerçants qui en tirèrent profit pour leurs négociations. En outre, des spectacles plus populaires de jongleurs, comme les exhibitions, ou des petites expositions dans les kiosques étaient … News (London, vol.1, Jan-Jun 1844, p. 368) Au-delà de la performance sportive, les courses de chevaux offraient un spectacle hétérogène, révélateur des mœurs et des pratiques de sociabilité anglaises. Cette rencontre d’exception devint …

… she exclaims, ‘now her eyes have gone down to her play-bill! Sir Harry, do take it from her.’ 11   Distracted by the spectacle of the play and its playbill, Lady Isabel is at risk of bypassing the attention of Major P. As both an aide … of Devonshire ’s support for the campaign of Charles James Fox: 14 . John Barrell, ‘Radicalism, Visual Culture, and Spectacle in the 1790s’, Romanticism on the Net (n° 46, 2007), p. 20. 15 . This has also been discussed by Russell in …

… among an even wider public. This ‘publication‘ of Pamela’s story is consonant with B’s general efforts to make a spectacle of Pamela in other ways, by having her tell stories in salons and even reciting himself one of her poems before …