I Feel Therefore I Am (BBC Radio 4)
Abigail Williams is, throughout the series, descriptive rather than prescriptive. I Feel Therefore I Am aims to elucidate the unacknowledged assumptions that shape fractious political debates.
Criticks – BSECS online reviews
The eighteenth century was the first great age of criticism. In this spirit, the Criticks website provides entertaining, informative and provocative reviews of events and media that are of interest to scholars of the eighteenth century. These complement the reviews of books that are published in the journal of the Society, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Plays, concerts, operas, exhibitions, films, broadcasts and online resources are here considered in depth by experts in the field. If there is an event that you would like to see reviewed in these pages, or if you would like to review for us, please contact one of the editors below:
Criticks Editor
Criticks Subject Editors
Fine and Decorative Art: Miriam Al Jamil
Media: Gráinne O’Hare
Music: Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
Theatre: Katie Noble
Reframing Reynolds: A Celebration
A stimulating exhibition and leaves one with the regret that this anniversary was not seized upon for a major show of Britain’s leading and most successful 18th-century portrait painter.
At the Venice Fair (La Fiera di Venezia), Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Bampton Classical Opera
Anyone who is interested in the development of the theatre in the eighteenth century should not miss next year’s performance.
Handel Festival, Halle 2023
The Halle Festival offers plentiful musical delights each year, but it is only fitting that we cherish some more than some others.
A Right Royal Spectacle: The Coronation of George IV
We become involved in George IV’s ‘right royal spectacle’ at the Pavilion through images, objects and music, within one of the most glorious of palaces to visit. It does not disappoint on each
Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney
This exhibition very obviously stems from the curator’s love of dogs — in real life as much as in art — a fondness that is palpable from the range of works on display, many of which demonstrate
Our Flag Means Death
OFMD has broadened representation of historical figures yet to make it onto the big screen, but this isn’t what makes the show unique. Making up for centuries of heterosexual pirate
Tom Jones (ITVX)
This production, in trying to balance too precariously between imitation and faithfulness to the novel, and adaptation and contemporary renewal, unfortunately fell into a rather spiritless abyss
Style and Society: Dressing the Georgians
Style and Society successfully combines fashion and portraiture to retell personal histories and narratives of the Georgian period, and to trace the development and transformation of key concepts,
Crown to Couture: The Fashion Show of The Centuries
Crown to Couture exemplifies, at once, how fashion can be perceived as a tool with which the individual can wield personal power or agency over the re-fashioning of the self; but also, how fashion