… (Boswell 528). In a telling aside, reporting a conversation that took place on 5th April, 1776, on the subject of gaming, Boswell first reports Johnson’s characteristic opening gambit: ‘He would begin thus: ‘Why, Sir, as to the good or …
… for rowdy and licentious behaviour by the lower orders but also people further up the social scale who relished its gaming booths. At the patent theatres (the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden) the traditional repertoire of …
… The house and its adjoining buildings were completely destroyed by fire in April 1733, 15 as depicted in ‘ Scene in a Gaming House ‘ (1735) in Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress. White’s became a private club in 1736 and moved to its own …