History & The Arts
The Enlightenment
...psychological threshold: The theatre was like a lunatic asylum, with rolling eyes, clenched fists, hoarse uproar among the audience. Strangers fell sobbing into each other's arms, women tottered, half-fainting, to the door. It was a universal disruption into chaos, out of whose mists a new creation is emerging. (Hampson, 1968, pp. 201–2) The movement also emphasised the...