… 12 The purpose was to ‘teach men to live together better, to offer them the opportunity to rediscover the virtues of a community cemented by common principles... [and] the energy of the passions it stirred up revitalised the newly awakened … 56) The numerous plays translated or adapted from the English brought readers together in a sort of international community of ‘sensitive souls, 14 eliciting the emotional allegiance of an audience gripped by an aestheticism that …