‘What a perennial delight is in hearing the French language spoken!’: Class, Language and Taste in the Maison de Molière’s French Performances in London (1871–1893) by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…British actor and theatre director Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree would also chime in to eulogize the prosodic qualities of the language of Molière, contrasting it with the British tradition as follows: ‘what a perennial delight is in hearing the French language spoken! …”
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