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    What Cato did: Suicide, sentimentalism, and the drama of emulation by Taylor, D

    Published 2022
    “…In the second part of the essay, I then consider how it was that an instrumentalist view of the play nonetheless become canon. Here, I trace Richard Steele’s appropriation of Cato to his project to reform the stage, a project that staked its claims for the cultural and moral efficacy of the theater on an avowedly emulative (and sentimental) model of drama; and I argue that Addison’s belated insistence on his protagonist’s all-too-humanness works to sentimentalize the character and so paradoxically opens up the very possibility of imitation that it seemingly seeks to foreclose.…”
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    Opera and british nationalism, 1700-1711 by Thomas McGeary

    Published 2006-06-01
    “…Cette étude analyse le discours des premiers critiques de l’opéra, Richard Steele, John Dennis et le Comte de Shaftesbury, et suggère la possibilité d’inscrire leur polémique contre l’opéra dans la tradition de l’humanisme citoyen et du républicanisme classique. …”
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