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...Amanda Lahikainen R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, 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...

..., and a citizen of probably Whiggish inclination” (xi). Whiggish readers of Locke were far from the only English consumers of the Don Quixote narrative, however, and “English writing” flowed from authors other than those implied by such a reader's perspective. Also, theater audiences came from a wide cross...

..., incorporating features of the picaresque, life writing, stage drama, jest, and satire. Typically short and often topical, they were ideally suited to a periodical and print marketplace sustained by the speedy reproduction and repackaging of familiar content. Anecdotes about the theater, and about the star...

... thought in this volume; Horace Walpole would be impressed. Bloomsbury Publishing's Cultural History is a unique series of texts on a growing list of topics: here Comedy, which joins series on Tragedy and Theater as a set of related resources. But the Cultural History series ranges widely, with series...

...Timothy M. Costelloe The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27104-Costello.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 52 The Theater of Morals: Culture and Community in Rousseau’s Lettre à M. d’Alembert...

..., Governance, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Theater Jeremy W. Webster Ohio University Mark S. Dawson. Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 300. $85. 10 ills. ISBN 0-521-84899-1...

... by Duke University Press 2013 R “Genius Thus Munificently Employed Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons Danielle Spratt California State University, Northridge What...

... homes, social venues, fashionable shops, and even the main streets were more brightly lit. Fireworks displays became more frequent and more spectacular. Furthermore, in many Enlightenment practices, such as theater, Freemason lodges, salons, and coffeehouses, light was not simply a practical necessity...

... 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...

..., a project that staked its claims for the cultural and moral efficacy of the theater on an avowedly emulative (and sentimental) model of drama. And I argue that Addison's belated insistence on his protagonist's all-too-humanness works to sentimentalize the character and so paradoxically opens up the very...

... 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...

...David O’Shaughnessy The Whig pamphleteer Dennis O’Bryen is one of a number of Irish playwrights in eighteenth-century London whose cultural and political contribution to the city has been overlooked. This essay offers the early career of O’Bryen as a case study in how the theater might be used...

..., the idea of whether or not an actor could “own” a part, or any part of performance, or who and how one could “own” anything that transpired onstage, forms a conceptual question that animates, equally, eighteenth-century theater and Jane Wessel's lucid, engaging new book. As Wessel articulates, ownership...

... insight into an era of aesthetic transition. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 mirror theater acting manners gesture performance • “The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form”: The Histrionic Mirror...

... is the latest in McPherson s decades- long engagement with the question of celebrity, specifically at the intersection of theater and painting. It brings together some material that has previously been published as well as new research in order to shed light on the culture that produced and sustained celebrity...

... University Elaine M. McGirr. Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Pp. ix + 210. $99.99 Serious scholarly attention to Colley Cibber is long overdue. He was a play- wright, actor, theater manager, and theater historian of considerable impor- tance in all...

...,” writes theater manager, actor, and play- wright Colley Cibber in his Apology, “no Actresses had ever been seen upon the English Stage. The Characters of Women, in former Theatres, were perform’d by Boys, or young Men of the most effeminate Aspect,” but after their appearance as players...

... the limits of this application by contrasting the living and communal world of Restoration theater with the modern audience’s experience in the darkened movie theater, each viewer watching independently, separated from the images projected on the screen. But one would do well to review Deborah C...

... questions about seeing and knowing” (22). He does not intend to provide scholarship on theater, but instead uses theatrical devices, texts, and settings to set up a cul- Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2012  doi 10.1215/00982601-1457147...

..., in the spring 1732, at the Little (or New) Theater in the Haymarket, and then from the autumn of 1732 at the the- ater in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Susannah was a lead singer in the English Opera Company, a company that, beginning as a profit-­sharing venture between her father, Henry Carey, and Johann Lampe...