Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… of masquerade participation (including ticket and costume) at 10 shillings – it offered a space of carnivalesque class disorder and transgression prompted by anonymity and identity play, even if the lower orders needed more affluent patrons … masquerade’, show two sides of the sociable experience: the intimate framework of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ and the disorderly crowd sociability, respectively. The masquerade remains at the core of popular visualisations and …
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