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Theatres of feeling: affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage

✍ Scribed by Marsden, Jean I

Publisher
Cambridge university press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
238
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Divine sympathy : theatre, connection, and virtue -- Dangerous pleasures : theatregoing in the eighteenth century -- Roman fathers and Grecian daughters : tragedy and the nation -- Performing the West Indies : comedy, feeling, and British identity -- The moral muse : comedy and social engineering

✦ Table of Contents

Divine sympathy : theatre, connection, and virtue --
Dangerous pleasures : theatregoing in the eighteenth century --
Roman fathers and Grecian daughters : tragedy and the nation --
Performing the West Indies : comedy, feeling, and British identity --
The moral muse : comedy and social engineering

✦ Subjects

18e siècle;Emotions;Émotions;Émotions--Dans la littérature;Emotions in literature;English drama;English drama--18th century--History and criticism;Psychologie;Publics;Theater audiences--Psychology;Theater--Psychological aspects;Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais;Théâtre (genre littéraire), anglais--18e siècle--Thèmes, motifs;Théâtre--Publics--Psychologie;Criticism, interpretation, etc;English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism;Theater -- Psychological aspects;Theater audiences -- Psy

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