Excerpt from The Critics in the Audience of the London Theatres From Buckingham to Sheridan: A Study of Neoclassicism in the Playhouse, 1671-1779 To provide a detailed picture of the people of the age as they reflectthe psychological and artistic consequences of the neoclassical movement is valuable, particularly if there is sound ness in the modern democratic conception of art as a force that Should act on every literate citizen. But to obtain such a pano rama from the dynamic social life of a widely chronicled and ...
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Excerpt from The Critics in the Audience of the London Theatres From Buckingham to Sheridan: A Study of Neoclassicism in the Playhouse, 1671-1779 To provide a detailed picture of the people of the age as they reflectthe psychological and artistic consequences of the neoclassical movement is valuable, particularly if there is sound ness in the modern democratic conception of art as a force that Should act on every literate citizen. But to obtain such a pano rama from the dynamic social life of a widely chronicled and eventful age is not easy. The writings and Conversations of those who were prominent in the society or eminent in the literature of this time have come down to us in rich profusion, but the thought, talk, and behavior of the ordinary man who had an amateur interest in the social and intellectual fashions of the day - the facts and phenomena which would actually Show the impact of critical theory upon public manners - are not to be discovered in any concentrated form in the essays, novels, or even the plays available in a single library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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