Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… a statue to Shakespeare [graphic]’, Yale University Library, Lewis Walpole Library, 770.09.00.06, [1770?]. Abstract At London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, sociability practices were realized, queried and transformed by actors and audiences. … succession of four buildings in the area bordered by Drury Lane, Russell Street, and Bridges (later Catherine) Street in London; each rose phoenix-like from the ashes of the theatre before it. The first Theatre Royal (sometimes referred to as … and imagined reconstructions rendered in line-drawings, see Richard Leacroft, The Development of the English Playhouse (London: Eyre Methuen, 1973). For space’s impact on staging, see Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Post-1660 Theatres as …
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