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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… in a premodern society an ‘Old Luxury’ prevailed, functioning as ‘a prerogative of the privileged classes of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2 who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and ‘high culture’ to … in a commercial and urban society (de Vries 43). In the course of the century, ‘new’ luxury items (porcelain, metalware, glass, printed cotton) became available to evermore citizens. Luxury goods were no longer only displayed by an … and David Hume, who both link luxury to community and human interaction. Many British readers had obtained initial awareness of the luxury debates through classical Greek and Roman literature. 4 Especially, tales of the rise to power …English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… Change: the Case of Restoration Drama‘, Komos II (1969), p. 23-31; Harold Love, ‘Bear’s Case Laid Open: Or, a Timely Warning To Literature Sociologists‘, Komos (1969), p. 72-80. 2 . Lorenzo Magalotti, Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand … marriage to Portuguese princess Catherine de Braganza (who came to London with her court in 1662), as well as two Dutch wars and the arrival to the throne of the House of Orange. 4 Very few characters on stage are Dutch (one famous exception … non-existent. Even passing allusions to the Low Countries, through characters of disbanded soldiers coming back from the wars in Flanders for example, are few and far between. This imbalance between geopolitical importance and theatrical …Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… it had developed an agenda to direct English arts and letters, with a particular emphasis on journalism and opera. 1 . Edward (Ned) Ward, The Secret History of the Clubs (London: 1709) The practices of the Kit-Cat Club were relatively formalised. It met … The Kit-Cats saw themselves as promoting Britain’s cultural reputation on the international stage in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). 7 They also saw themselves as educators of the ‘middling sort’, funding several …Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… that might threaten the social fabric. In the seventeenth century, with the rise of religious tensions and the civil wars, ‘cant’ came to be used to satirise the preaching of Puritans and non-conformists and what was considered by … ‘abuses of words’. 3 Jonathan Swift, in 1712, published a letter addressed to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in which he warned his readers against the potential decadence of the English language it if were to imitate the French language too … age of cant’ to highlight the fact that controversies on morality and language raged in the Revolutionary era and afterwards. 11 French political philosophy and moral preoccupations were deemed unmanly and characterised by their fraudulent …London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… effective, as Susan Wiseman and Janet Clare have both demonstrated (S. Wiseman, Drama and Politics in the English Civil War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998; J. Clare, Drama of the English Republic: 1649–1660, Manchester, … 1660) There were other changes to mark the departure from Elizabethan tradition: the two playhouses were shifted westward towards Westminster, and ticket prices rose (in part due to investments in expensive theatre machinery), which led critics …Pagination
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