Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… imitate theatrical celebrities. 28 ‘Spouting companions’ catered to amateur actors belonging to tavern-based spouting clubs who desired to reproduce actors’ famous speeches and attitudes, often with the directive ‘as performed at Drury … Collection of the Best and Most Admir’d Prologues and Epilogues, That have been spoken at the theatres and the spouting clubs (London: P. Wicks and R. Lloyd, 1771), p. 1. 30 . For example, The sheep-sheering [sic]. A new song sung at Drury …
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