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  • Introduction

  • James Harriman-Smith, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Book:
    Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
    Published online:
    02 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 March 2021, pp 1-21

  • Summary

    Francis Gentleman recorded that David Garrick’s performance of Thomas Otway's Jaffeir ‘beggars description, by an amazing variety of transitions, tones and picturesque attitudes’. I use Gentleman's commentary to introduce here the concept of transition with respect to three things: theatrical practice, theories of the passions, and the eighteenth-century understanding of the mind in wonder. My argument throughout is that the identification of transitions leads to simultaneous recognition of the iconic and dynamic qualities of an object.