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See Marvin Carlson, Theories of the Theatre (Ithaca, ), pp. –; Joseph R. , ), pp. –, and William Worthen, The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (Princeton, ), ch. . David Hume, ‘Of Eloquence’, Essays Moral, Political and Literary (Oxford, ), p. . John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination. English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (New York, ), pp. –. -B. Du Bos, Réflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur peinture, vols. (Paris, ; second revised edition, ); English translation, .
Ed. John M. Robertson, vols. (London, ), I, p. , where the mind is referred to as ‘a spectator or auditor of other minds’. See, too, Jonah Barish, The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice (Berkeley, ), pp. –, and Joseph J. Spengler, ‘Smith Versus Hobbes: Economy Versus Polity’, in F. R. , ), p. , who points out that the ‘invisible hand’ was compared by Fontenelle in Pluralité des mondes (), a work Smith knew, to ‘that of an Engineer who, hidden in the pit of a French Theatre, operated “the Machines of the Theatre” in motion on the stage’.
To examine our own passions and conduct, and to consider how these must appear to [others] . . [w]e suppose ourselves the spectators to our own behaviour, and endeavor to imagine what effect it would, in this light, produce upon us. 44 With their Scots colleague Adam Ferguson, who worried that moderns in polite societies ‘rate our fellow-citizens by the figure they are able to make’ and thereby ‘lose every sense of distinction arising from merit’,45 Hume and Smith concurred that the abiding problem posed by commercial sociability was to show how individuals could be thought of as moral if they were irreducibly prideful and vain, and that the dynamics of commerce depended upon the encouragement of these disturbing natural propensities.