“Fit for the Reception of Ladies and Gentlemen”: Power, Space, and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic Playhouses
Eighteenth-century English men and women ventured to the playhouse for a night of festive revelry and entertainment. Despite the raucousness (compared to our vision of a night at the theatre), theatergoing was a polite endeavor and as such equipped with the material pleasantries of bourgeois society...
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Scholar Commons
2006
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3821 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5018&context=etd |