English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… whose tragedies bear the mark of a spectacular, striking dramaturgy, which ignored the ideal of the three unities, and classical moral codes and good taste. The ‘English air’ (Soulatges 50) which permeated Voltairean tragedy also suffused … et la nostalgie des grands crimes. À propos de quelques adaptations françaises de la domestic tragedy', Littératures classiques (vol. 67, n° 3, 2008), p. 187-200. The two ʻ tragédies bourgeoises ʼ (as their publisher would name them), … , shall not, despite the efforts of our philosophers, become the norm. 19 As upsetting as British theatre was to classical codes and aesthetics, its growing popularity in France worried those who feared that the sociability inherited …
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