Eastern & Western History, Thought & Culture, 1600-1815This work aims to provide a broad, integrated and reasonably comprehensive survey of political economic, cultural and social developments of the 17th and 18th centuries in the eastern and western worlds. |
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... presented by Selliers in the nearby Kärntnertor Theater . As time went on , nobles and theatre - going commoners ... presenting old - style slapstick comedy , which attracted large plebian audiences were able to pay their own way until ...
... presented by Selliers in the nearby Kärntnertor Theater . As time went on , nobles and theatre - going commoners ... presenting old - style slapstick comedy , which attracted large plebian audiences were able to pay their own way until ...
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... ( presented on November 4 , 1789 ) , whose anti - monarchial declamations shocked the audience . Chénier became a revolutionary poet notwithstanding the fact that his elder brother André Marie ( 1762-1794 ) went to the guillotine for ...
... ( presented on November 4 , 1789 ) , whose anti - monarchial declamations shocked the audience . Chénier became a revolutionary poet notwithstanding the fact that his elder brother André Marie ( 1762-1794 ) went to the guillotine for ...
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... presented repeatedly during Spontini's lifetime and beyond . The composer remained in Paris for several years after Napoleon's fall , celebrating in opera the Bourbon Restoration . ( Alas for loyalty to one's benefactor ! ) Others ...
... presented repeatedly during Spontini's lifetime and beyond . The composer remained in Paris for several years after Napoleon's fall , celebrating in opera the Bourbon Restoration . ( Alas for loyalty to one's benefactor ! ) Others ...
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Forces in Contention | 13 |
Baroque Cultural Currents Politics Economics | 49 |
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