Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… was implicated in a variety of sociable interactions. For example, larger great bills could become the subject of conversation on the city’s streets. In her memoirs, actress Charlotte Charke talks of the joy she felt 'not only in … houses, or pinned to cushions within the theatre itself. Within the sociable coffeehouse , they were catalysts for conversation regarding the latest playhouse drama, both on-stage and off. Playwrights and actors were regular patrons at …
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