"Abject, Delude, Create: The Aesthetic Self-Consciousness of Early Eighteenth-Century Farce." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research (Volume 25 Issue 1) Abstract: In the early eighteenth century, farce was a much-maligned form of theater, in part because of its over-indulgence in the corporeal. This essay seeks to re-conceptualize the significance of farce by examining its self-conscious spectacularization …
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