... by Duke University Press 2011 Review Essay Masques and Bergamasques: Dancing with Voltaire Édouard Langille St. Francis Xavier University Nicholas Cronk, ed. The Cambridge Companion...

..., January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793967 Copyright 2021 by Amanda Lahikainen 1 0 1 Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth- Century French Print Culture Amanda Lahikainen Aquinas College Claire Trévien. Satire, Prints, and Theatricality in the French Revolution (Oxford: Voltaire...

...Elise Goodman Mary Tavener Holmes, Nicolas Lancret: Dance before a Fountain . Getty Museum Studies on Art (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006). Pp. 129. 93 ills. $19.50 paper. ISBN 0-89236-832-2 Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles...

... the insalubrious emulation of the ruling class’s tastes and pursuits. The 1773 engraving entitled THE BENGALL MINUET depicts an elderly nabob and his wife in a room empty of furniture practicing their dance moves for the London season (figure 5). That a couple so advanced in age must rehearse the social...

... the cymbal, violin, pipe, tabor, and drum while dancing gracefully in full swing.13 Puffing verses in the London Mag- azine of January 1755 celebrated her: Slow to believe, strong prejudice my fort, At first I gave no credit to report...

... of the Grand Théâtre, introduced the opéra- comique with its danced interludes whose subjects were analogous to that of the main performance. Couvreur describes the French artistic contribu- tion at Le Théâtre de la Monnaie during the war as introducing a com...

... Kemp’s Collection, with a translation of a work originally composed in a foreign language in order to establish the work’s “critical credentials,” but with a poem written in Middle Scots, “Christ’s Kirk on the Green,” a rollicking account of “Dancing and Deray” (disturbance or disorderly action...

... facets of the burgeoning leisure industry: theaters, museums, sports, dancing, and tourism. Again, the exhibition is outstanding in showing how crazes for novelty—from spectacular fireworks to the latest celebrities—are structured by sets of conventions that dictate even supposedly spontaneous...

... of mercenary marriages.19 In Coalition Dance (3 April 1783), for example, Gillray parodies the well-­known Reyn- olds painting, Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen (figure 2). Instead of the Montgomery sisters draping with flowers a statue of the Roman god of marriage, North, Fox, and Burke dance...

... in the Eighteenth Century (1905; rpt. N.Y.: Benjamin Blom, 1968), pl. cxx; BMC #4259. Grown Ladies &c taught to Dance, “Engraved after an Original Picture of Mr John Collett, in the Possession of Mr Smith,” “J. Collett pinxit,” “Rennoldson sculpsit,” 9.5 x 13...

... of the Life of Lady H— (1741). 4 & 5: John Kelly’s Pamela’s Conduct in High Life (1741), a spurious continuation of Pamela. 6: six dramatic and operatic adaptations: Henry Giffard’s Pamela. A Comedy (1741); [ James Dance’s] Pamela...

...: With farce, with opera, with pantomime, Sometimes in simple prose, sometimes in rhime, We’ll entertainÐ your pleasure to enhance, To Orpheus’s lyre the very sheep shall dance.16 In making the sheep dance to Orpheus’s lyre and bringing the sophisticated delights of Melpomene and Thalia...

... rage.14 Likewise, in Corbould’s illustrations of Humphry Clinker, the artist takes a scene that depends on caricature in the text and interprets it in a good-­natured way. When Jery Melford describes Sir Ulic Mack­ illigut and his dancing master, we are told that “the master was blind of one eye...

... When Samuel Johnson and James Boswell visited that country from August to November of 1773, they found singers and musicians everywhere and frequently watched and even joined in a bit of dancing. Johnson’s Jour- ney to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) reports bagpipers accompany- ing...

... to be found customar- ily herded together in converse with “dancing and singing girls who are very numerous and very handsome and very wicked.”7 It was just this dolci far neinte atmo- sphere that the eminent Glaswegian bear-leader and writer of travel com- mentaries, Dr. John Moore, most...

... balls held by his brother, a danc- ing-master. According to Charles, Esther was “daughter of Old Sleepe, the <Head> [of the City waits] and furnisher of bands for municipal [festivities, and Mrs Sleepe,] the daughter of a M. Dubois, [who] <kept> a Fan Shop in Cheapside.”3 The editors of Charles’s...

... when she wrote, in the midst of the Second World War, that the “Boulanger” is a direct reference to the French Revolution. Mrs. Bennet mentions this French dance after the ball, when she recounts to her bored husband the many partners with whom Bingley danced. “Here,” writes Kaye-Smith, “Mr...

... by Mr. Nat. Tate. The Musick Compos’d by Mr. Purcell”; and that, alas undated libretto, is the earliest concrete evidence of a performance.5 Josias Priest, a dancing master and choreographer frequently employed by the playhouses, had taken over the aristocratic girl’s...

... with their tongues. They commonly speak first and think afterwards, step a minuet as they walk, and sit as gracefully on an Exchange bench as if in a great saddle. Their bodies always dance to their tongues, and they are so great lovers of action that they were ready to wound every pillar...

... minister. He tells them a long and prosy tale about his own youthful travels to the Kingdom of the Parrots and the Empire of the Frogs, undertaken in the spirit of the modish Grand Tour and in the com- pany of his tutor and dancing teacher. The moral is that when abroad...