London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… 3 Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres had operated as free commercial enterprises. In 1660, however, the king issued letters patent for the creation of the King’s and the Duke’s companies to two of his family members, effectively … Women, Wit and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1994. 11 . On the issue of celebrity, see for example B. Cowan, ‘News, Biography, and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity’, Oxford Handbooks …
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