Sujets :
Arts du cirque - Angleterre
Histoire des arts du cirque - 18e siècle
Histoire des arts du cirque - 19e siècle
Astley, Philip [écuyer, propriétaire de cirque]
Hugues, Charles [écuyer, propriétaire de cirque]
Ducrow, Andrew [artiste de cirque]

Résumé :
Extract : Marius Kwint “lines . . . addressed to Mr. Astley by a Lady, on seeing his performances” (1785) You at command make brutes obey, Walk, work, or dance, with movement gay. Your horses far excel report, Whose minuet might grace a Court; Their hornpipe quick to music true, They seem as if each step they knew, But all the art and skill’s with you. The monkey, though of race despis’d Unequall’d must by all be priz’d His excellence excites surprise; For e’en with man for fame he vies. The dancing dogs, where Lady Flaunt In chariot plac’d to take a jaunt With flirting airs so perfect seen, She seems to move a fairy queen. The hunting, where the taylors chace, A fox with mirth o’er spreads each face. The modern circus has a rather different form and content from the chariot races of its ancient Roman namesake because it is...

Cote : 306.48 K862h 2002