English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 comedic dramaturgy. Michel-Jean … 1756 publication of Choix de petites pièces du Théâtre anglais that formed ‘a piquant contrast to our timid national taste, cleverly designed to ignite the zeal of reformers.’ One of Patu’s selections, Robert Dodsley’s The King and the … but asphyxiates; one wakes from it as if from a nightmare, with a belly full of bile all night [...] That is British taste. […] Let us hope that such barbarism, such lack of savoir-vivre , shall not, despite the efforts of our …
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