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The recovery of London expanded at a rapid pace after the Great Fire. As the city at the heart of the Age of Enlightenment, it was a consumer society par excellence with wealth and squalor side by side. It was a rough and ready time, elegant and refined: a time of passionate preaching and riotous disorder. This is the time of Robert Adam, Canaletto, William Hogarth and the Mob, and the course will illustrate the life that Londoners lived in every stratum of society.
The Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Elegance opened up many new waves of cultural experiences. This lecture will bring you David Garrick and his modernised theatre at Drury Lane, Italianate and Handelian opera at the King’s Opera House, and Gay’s Beggars Opera. We will follow the visits of Mozart and Haydn to London, and among writers explore the London works of Swift, Pope and Wordsworth and the founding of The Spectator by Addison and Steele.
Speaker(s): |
Mr Geoffrey Toms | talks |
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Date and Time: |
13 March 2013 at 10:45 am |
Duration: | Half Day |
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Venue: |
The University Women's Club |
Organised by: |
THE COURSE |
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Tickets: |
£42 |
Available from: |
info@thecoursestudies.co.uk |
Additional Information: |
visit www.thecoursestudies.co.uk |
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