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 A Wild Poetry Slam

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Between

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The Men  of the “Age of Enlightenment”    Pope, Swift, Gay, Sheridan

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The Women who fomented the first feminist rebellion   Montagu, Chudleigh, Lennox, Finch

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Never heard of these women? Once heard, you won't forget them!

 

William Hogarth's Marriage á la Mode and the Rake's Progress set the visual ambience. 

Hogarth's engravings depict the moral peril threatening to entangle the weak-willed, self-indulgent and unwary. 

 

The  Commedia characters Harlequin and Harlequin  will transports you through five iconic themes of the 18th century:

 

                                                                                    1. Classic Mythology - Venus, Mars and Cupid in a Ballad Opera

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                                                                                    2. The Pastoral - Shepherds and Shepherdess - An idyllic landscape.

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                                                                                    3.  Memento Mori  -  Consequence and Free Will

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                                                                                    4. The Salon - A hotbed of Art and Malicious Gossip

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                                                                                    5. The English Cottage Garden - Love’s new awakening