Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… William Hogarth, 'Masquerades and Operas', Met Museum, 32.35(80), 1724. Résumé Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds … sphere and a selective elitist assembly, deriving from the tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century court-based masked balls, even if the boundaries separating the two variants were not always clear cut. However, the level of … 1980s and 1990s (most notably the work by Terry Castle). 1 Nevertheless, both written and visual representations of masked assemblies of the century show that, just like musical concerts, theatrical productions and operas, they gradually …
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