Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… of Voltaire’s Le Comte de Boursoufle , ‘so perfectly and extravagantly executed her role, [that she] took real pleasure in it,’ 6 yet took every opportunity in her letters to stigmatise the marquise for how she carried on when … of theatre and sociability, that is at the core of private theatricals. Society theatre was thus not merely worldly pleasure or ‘fashionable entertainment, 12 as Dominique Quéro has stated, it was a space where new tastes could find …
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