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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… his second wife Emma performed her Attitudes and danced the tarantella in front of assembled guests. In another set of performances, young boys splashed naked in the waters in front of his villa. People > Aristocracy People > Travel Keywords Sir William Hamilton Emma Hamilton Lady Catherine Hamilton Dance performance Naples Travel Entertainement Grand Tour As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William Hamilton … on Sir William and Emma Hamilton, see Ersy Contogouris, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance, and Representation (London: Routledge, 2018). 2 . ‘Un paradis habité par des diables.’ Maximilien Misson, …

Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… behaviour and the examination of sociability’s performative nature. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Cities Keywords performance affect media celebrity acting public Coffeehouse play riot Spaces The name Theatre Royal, Drury Lane refers … (London: Eyre Methuen, 1973). For space’s impact on staging, see Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces’, in Susan J. Owen (ed.), A Companion to Restoration Drama (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 3-18. The … richly dressed to see and be seen. Royalty might ‘command’ certain repertoire, and their advertised presence at a performance drew audiences, too. The gallery was frequented by the middling sort and tradesmen. Cheap seats in the upper …

Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]

… both grand and modest, people of the same society and social stratum engaged in amateur theatre. Private theatre performances were a practice in which worldliness and aesthetics intersected, inextricably linked with sociability. In … production methods of traditional public theatre: any member of society could be called up to the stage during a given performance. The show itself was a form of entertainment during which everyone played a role, whether as actor, author, … to sociability. Voltaire and Madame Denis, for example, offered a sumptuous feast to the spectators following the performance of one of the playwright’s tragedies at Ferney. 3   The French literary critic Fréron 4   described a day in …

English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… relations. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Keywords Friendship Anglomania comedy drama émotion pathos performance Translation Theatre Dramatic art ' It has been said that ‘the French only truly discovered British theatre in … transformation that affected comedy in particular. Laughter was no longer the preordained response to a theatrical performance: the fate of the exemplary characters was meant to stir up profound emotion in the spectator. The terms used … It also fuelled the debate on Franco-British relations. … Friendship … Anglomania … comedy … drama … émotion … pathos … performance … Translation … Theatre … Dramatic art … English theatre in Enlightenment France …

Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… new communities emerging in the digital realm. People > Art and Literature Keywords provincial sociability Gender performance courtship social rank Public sphere leisure economy The Sociable Jane Austen Jane Austen’s early life, … of predatory incomers; the superficial charms of a Willoughby, Wickham or the Crawfords, who excel in the rhetoric and performance of polite sociability, deceive not only their potential lovers but the whole neighbourhood. 10 6 . Emma, ed. … ball represented the culmination of dancing lessons and long rehearsed social skills combining self-presentation with performance. A young lady’s first ball signalled her eligibility for marriage: that she was ‘out’. Even Fanny Price, the …

Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]

… and Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. People > Fashion Keywords Recency Dandy Fashion Clubs performance Until today, George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840) is credited with being the first, the ‘Ur’-dandy. … of good society (Jesse I: 99; Kelly 181-182). For contemporaries, Brummell’s verbal style was a central element of this performance. In Regency London, a few hundred families belonged to good society, following its often very elaborate … Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. … Recency … Dandy … Fashion … Clubs … performance … Beau Brummell (George Bryan) …