Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century. The Art of Transition, Hardback/James Harriman-Smith

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments of larger sequential transformation. Through a recovery of this perspective, scholars of theatre and literary culture gain renewed understanding of performance, the passions, and criticism in the 1700s. Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises