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Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690–1800
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Robert D. Hume R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725760 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 0 1 Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690 1800 Robert D. Hume Pennsylvania State...
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“The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form”: The Histrionic Mirror and Georgian-Era Performance
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Terry F. Robinson This essay explores the impact of mirrors on Georgian-era theatrical and social performance. It suggests that looking glasses—as they burgeoned in eighteenth-century playhouses, offstage, onstage, and backstage—provided key sites for actors and audiences to engage with both...
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Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Deirdre Coleman Duke University Press 2006
Entertaining Entomology:
Insects and Insect Performers in the
Eighteenth Century
Deirdre Coleman
University of Sydney...
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The Entry of Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine into Brussels: Monarchical Discourse in Public Ceremonies and Theatrical Performances
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 69–82.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Ceremonies and Theatrical Performances
Christel Stalpaert
University of Ghent
When Emperor Charles VI died on 29 October 1740, via the Pragmatic
Sanction he had secured recognition of his daughter Marie-Theresia’s...
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Transcendent Ephemera: Performing Deep Structure in Elegies, Ballads, and Other Occasional Forms
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Dianne Dugaw This essay considers our response to printed ephemera, analyzing British examples of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically elegies, broadside ballads, and the life story and advertised theatrical performing of the eighteenth-century female soldier Hannah Snell, using...
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Performing the Self: Methodist, Secular, and Postsecular Productions
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 January 2016
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Performing the Self:
Methodist, Secular, and Postsecular Productions
Lori Branch
University of Iowa
Misty G. Anderson. Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm,
Belief...
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Ossian on the Georgian Stage
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Sebastian Mitchell Abstract James Macpherson's “translations” of the poems of Ossian were highly influential on stage culture in continental Europe. There were many musical and theatrical adaptations of the poems, and those performances were taken seriously by critics and audiences alike...
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Selling Celebrity: Actors’ Portraits in Bell’s Shakespeare and Bell’s British Theatre
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... culture of theatrical celebrity. While paintings and engraved prints of actors mostly peddled a mode of celebrity that was sustained by audience applause within the theater walls, Bell’s illustrations created a parallel visibility for the performers outside the theater, which was only tenuously...
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The Problematics of “Evidence” in Historical Scholarship and Criticism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
... with any confidence. Was Jonathan Swift a virgin? Opinions differ, and evidence is lacking. In theater history huge gaps in performance records prior to the advent of daily newspaper ads post 1700 leave us ignorant of what was performed on more than 80 percent of nights in Restoration London. In some...
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Fielding, Opera, and Oratorio: The Case of Handel
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 83–100.
Published: 01 September 2022
... moved away from Italian opera and toward English oratorio. While Fielding was critical of the former, the latter genre aligned with his aesthetic ideal, which favored word‐centric music performed in English with a minimum of “Tinsel, or . . . Ostentation.” Indeed, it is arguable that in his ballad‐opera...
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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...? This essay brings two often disconnected schools of historical inquiry into conversation, through an exploration of the spiritual and material for two devout female Anglicans: Katherine Plymley (1758–1829) and Anna Larpent (1758–1832). It charts the negotiation of material ambivalence and the performance...
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Preserved Remains: Embalming Practices in Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Jolene Zigarovich This paper looks at the cultural discourse of embalming in the eighteenth century. Not uncommon, embalming was performed, improved, and commercialized. From mummy unrollings, to churchyard reorderings, to public viewings of “curiosities,” the embalmed were often exposed to public...
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Negotiating Marriage and Professional Autonomy in the Careers of Eighteenth-Century Actresses
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 39–75.
Published: 01 April 2011
... negotiated their ways between the benefits and the liabilities of marriage. “Contract” marriage, or “performing marriage,” the essay suggests, was one way in which an actress might maintain her legal, and therefore professional, agency, within the framework of a long-term personal relationship. Some...
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“Voice and Accents”: Enthusiastic Characterization in Shaftesbury’s The Moralists
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 72–96.
Published: 01 January 2013
... the dialogic personal practice of philosophy with the characters of three modern Socratics, producing an aestheticized theory of enthusiastic self-characterization in which the philosopher can only perform “true enthusiasm” by multiplying himself into different characters. Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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“Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!”: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... question of what level of compensation actresses deserved to receive. This essay thus suggests that the cultural portrayal of benefit performances reveals the often-paradoxical reception of both philanthropy and celebrity, especially as it was inflected by gender, during the period. Copyright 2013...
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“Impatient to Be Gone”: Aphra Behn’s Vindication of the Flights of Woman
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
.... In performing close readings of two of Behn’s most complex and perverse runaway-woman narratives, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87) and The History of the Nun (1688), this essay recalibrates our sense of Behn’s connection with and contribution to what would come to be called the women’s...
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“Cannot You Trust God for a Sermon?”: Anti-Methodists and the Rhetoric of Methodist Spirituality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of Methodism is actually a performance that can be dissected through rhetorical criticism. In examining what preachers can do, should do, and also what should be done about them, anti-Methodists present meditations about rhetoric, its inherent value, and the problem of its effects. Methodists anti...
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The Literary Lutes of the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 99–124.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and amateur musicians who played them, and the performance spaces in which they were encountered. This in turn invites a sustained reconsideration of the many references to lutes that appear in works of English literature from 1680 to 1830—and that is precisely the task I undertake in this article...
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Fanny’s Feelings: Social Mobility and Emotions in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 76–104.
Published: 01 April 2019
... performing sexual acts. In “Fanny’s Feeling,” I argue instead that Fanny Hill tells the story of the heroine’s development of emotional sophistication, which provides the key to her success. Other novelists, such as Samuel Richardson and Eliza Hay-wood, depict characters that acquire emotion sophistication...
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Lovelace's “Gloomy Scheme of Death”: Suffering, Dueling, and Suicide in Richardson's Clarissa
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Lovelace's own self-willed death at length. The following consideration of Lovelace's “gloomy scheme of death” reveals the violence necessary for performances of masculinity in the early to mid-eighteenth century and suggests that the duel is at the heart at such efforts at self-display. r.sulich...
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