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 … It was worldly entertainment par excellence ; society theatre was an activity perfectly adapted to sociability. Voltaire and Madame Denis, for example, offered a sumptuous feast to the spectators following the performance of one of … 2 . Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval, Le théâtre de société, un autre théâtre ? (Paris: Champion, 2003), p. 11. 3 . Voltaire’s letter to the d’Argentals, 8 March [1762], D10366: ‘But what to do with three hundred people standing outside …
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