… 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 …