Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… later printed as facsimile bills by jobbing printers. 14 As argued by John Barrell, ‘By its sheer ubiquitousness, the language of theatre advertising could function as a language that addressed the polite and the vulgar much more efficiently than the language […] of formal political debate’ (Barrell 24). 15 In one such example of a mock playbill from 1784, the subject …
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