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John Thelwall
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… unified body, which he did through a variety of means including printed publications, staged interventions at theatrical performances, and a series of public lectures. An early lecture on William Godwin’s Political Justice was initially … to lecture, but now under the guise of lectures on classical history. Earlier in his career Thelwall had used theatrical performance as a means of political protest, attending a performance of Ottway’s play Vencie Preserv’d at Covent Garden on 1 February 1793, where he led a group of friends in …
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… including meetings of clubs and societies, political meetings, balls and assemblies, celebratory dinners, and concert performances. They also functioned as auction houses, collectors of signatures for petitions, theatre box offices, and …
… republican ideal of liberty. Focusing on sociable practices tainted by revolutionary principles (festivals, theatrical performances, ballets …), she laments the collusion of politics, sociability and popular amusements: ‘I have more than …