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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 Art: Miriam Al Jamil
Media: Daniel Cook and Adam James Smith
Music: Hannah Templeton
Theatre: Katie Aske
Johnson and Garrick: A Friendship in Constant Repair
A pleasant exhibition that showcases the richness of eighteenth-century theatrical culture, friendship and fame.
Art of Power: Masterpieces of the Bute Collection
A carefully curated treasure trove that sheds light on the collector as well as the art.
Basic Instincts
An exhibition encouraging empathy and understanding,
Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures
A small but momentous exhibition.
Peter the Great: A Tsar in France, 1717
A significant exhibition that could have done more with the treasures it assembled.
National Army Museum
The newly refurbished National Army Museum tells its stories from the soldier's point of view.
Fickle Fortunes: Jane Austen and Germaine de Staël
An ambitious exhibition raising more questions than it answers.
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites
A fascinating exhibition with some notable omissions.
Collecting Johnson
A broad yet intimate collection of Johnsoniana from across the centuries and the world.