English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Image Louis Michel Halbou, d’après Jean-Michel Moreau, ‘Le Café ou l’Écossaise’, Wikimedia Commons, 1784. Résumé French playwrights of the second half of the eighteenth century found inspiration in the themes, characters, and scenarios they … was in fact a hybrid genre, a melding of the traditional comic and tragic registers in proportions that varied from one play to the next. It was instrumental in disseminating the socio-political ideal of the Enlightenment: the high born, as … , an eight-volume anthology of liberal, ‘occasionally mutilated or sugar coated,’ 5 even abridged, adaptations of plays plundered mainly from Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Though the productions were aesthetically ‘still entirely foreign to …
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