This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth cen
Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous
Sentimentalism became popular in the eighteenth century, part of the philosophical idea that truth is founded on emotion or moral sentiment. Peace uses the Lond