The Masquerade
Title | The Masquerade PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 17?? |
Genre | Conduct of life |
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The Masquerade: Containing a Variety of Merry Characters of All Sorts, Properly Dressed for the Occasion. Calculated to Amuse and Instruct All the Good Boys and Girls in the Kingdom
Title | The Masquerade: Containing a Variety of Merry Characters of All Sorts, Properly Dressed for the Occasion. Calculated to Amuse and Instruct All the Good Boys and Girls in the Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | MASQUERADE. |
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Pages | 78 |
Release | 1780* |
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The Masquerade
Title | The Masquerade PDF eBook |
Author | John Marshall (Printer) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1785* |
Genre | Costume |
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Description of each character, as he or she parades into view.
Masquerade and Civilization
Title | Masquerade and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Castle |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804714686 |
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
The Masquerade
Title | The Masquerade PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1785 |
Genre | Costume |
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Description of each character, as he or she parades into view.
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Title | Performing the Temple of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Jenna M. Gibbs |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2014-06-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421413396 |
Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work.
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Title | Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Jackson Jowers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1136746420 |
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.