ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ambivalence, River Coquet, Dime (United States Coin)
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Topics of second interpretive essay is up on blackboard. 8: explains her showy clothes: vol. ch. 9: she dressed up as a man of chastity what she dressed up as. Inchbald wants us to think about how love as demanding a kind of acting and wants us to see the authenticity of feeling. Since 1720s, masquerade was part of public entertainment like places evelina tours: open to public and for anyone who has the money for it, 2 famous masquerade entrepreneurs having public balls for. However, done in a safe setting the private setting. The masquerade sells itself as something to be utterly unknown and to liberate oneself: offers liberation in concealing your identity, celebrated and criticized concealing identity you can get away. Masquerade projected an anti-nature; a world upside down (quotation from castle: the coquette finds the masquerade as her natural habitat, nun and friar costumes. Print from oxford magazine (1771) from mrs. cornely"s masquerade:
