Citations:theatrophobia

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English citations of theatrophobia

  • 2003, Emily Allen, Theater figures: the production of the nineteenth-century British novel, →ISBN, page 57:
    Fanny's fear of display, especially in the ball scene, is not merely an exercise in theatrophobia, but a reluctance to circulate openly on the marriage market to which theatrical display is so obviously linked.
  • 1999, Dan Urian, Efraim Karsh, In search of identity: Jewish aspects in Israeli culture, →ISBN, page 219:
    This [second] commandment led to countless generations of theatrophobia by halachic Judaism, but the strong reservation against (re)presentational arts cannot serve alone as an exhaustive explanation []
  • 1866, George Darley, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume 1, Introduction, page xxix:
    Though far from a Puritan myself, I must acknowledge this sect justified in all but its extreme procedures and prejudices against Dramatic Art as then exercised, in its most reasonable theatro-phobia, whilst playhouses were so like the devil's preserves, as playwrights then made them.