… and their passions. Sociability thus operated on two levels—on stage, and in the audience. It also fuelled the debate on Franco-British relations. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Mots-clés Anglomania Audience Emotions … that ‘the French only truly discovered British theatre in the eighteenth century,’ 1 but it immediately gave rise to debates surrounding theatre, culture, and morality. Sociability was a central issue in the debate. The discovery was part of a general wave of Anglomania which ‘manifested more readily in literature than in other …
… office-holders or state officials. The social composition of the Restoration audience has remained an object of debate since the A. S. Bear-Harold Love controversy, but the pricing policies of the theatres and their relatively small … his narrowly missing an orange thrown at his face by an excited member of the audience. 3 1 . For details of the debate, see Harold Love, ‘The Myth of the Restoration Audience‘, Komos: A Quaterly Journal of Drama and the Arts of the …
Audience | Diplomacy | Europe | Opera | Theatre | Translation | Travel
… the social dynamics of theatre interiors in London during the long eighteenth century, have long been the subjects of debate. 6 Prologues and epilogues to contemporary dramatic plays regularly reference the social division of spaces … value, as they would attract a more diverse clientele. The celebrity of female players was also the focus of new debates. Performers such as Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle even developed sizeable cult followings, skewing the …
… Franco-British sociability and theatrical production in the eighteenth century. In 1767, their exchanges would spark a debate on national prejudices, and in 1769, a quarrel over British theatre. The disputes between the two epistolarians …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
… the advancement of polite letters. How cumbersome soever her language, her opinions concerning the value of political debate still resound today . Thus, she wrote about The Literary Club : Dissensions through politics must necessarily be … be lamented; they are the unavoidable offsprings of the most exalted exercise of the human faculties, freedom of debate; that freedom whence spring independence, justice, and liberty [...] In truth, to exclude from meetings formed for …
… began to come to see ballet performances including soldiers. Theatres relied on this rapt attention, discussion and debate about the content of the ballet, choreography, its performers, costumes, scenery, and music, to promote ticket …
… communities contributed to the slave insurrections of 1791, which triggered the Haitian Revolution. Stances in this debate depend on which aspects of the phenomenon the historian chooses to focus on. 6 What is clear, however, is that …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
… The letters also document that they spoke about their private lives as well as their plans. Being avid readers, they debated literary texts they had enjoyed as well as theatrical performances. Both Berry and Baillie were thus part of a …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
… as a language that addressed the polite and the vulgar much more efficiently than the language […] of formal political debate’ (Barrell 24). 15 In one such example of a mock playbill from 1784, the subject of lampoon is the Duchess of …