‘In its excesses of costume, consumption and display the masquerade became synonymous with an emergent capitalist economy and with the marketisation of individual whims and pleasures.’
Daisy Hay on masquerades:
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Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to overestimate – though easy to forget – the cultural significance of the...
