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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… Cathal MacLochlainn (1699?–1797)  exemplifies the Irish Enlightenment and successful access to British social circles, London theatres, Anglo-Irish debating and charitable societies. Moreover, he was eager to acquire a lasting though sometimes … Lane, hastened his entry and participation in the sociable British Enlightenment. People > Art and Literature Keywords London Theatres Debating Societies Garrick Shylock Irish Enlightenment Charitable societies Courtroom Green Room Charles …

Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… Abstract Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751, Dublin, Ireland – 7 July 1816, London, England) was an Irish-born British playwright, poet, politician, 'clubbable' orator and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as  The Rivals (1775 ),   The School for Scandal … the fashionable 'Whig fraternity'. People > Art and Literature People > Politics People > Association Keywords London Theatres The Literary Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund …

Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the west and the commercial City of London to the east. It was conceived as a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were populated by a cross-section of London life, including actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy …

London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… prologues and epilogues, and of the sociological make-up of audiences and performance spaces, paints a picture of London theatre during the long eighteenth century as a complex ecosystem of sociabilities in which socio-economics and … diarist and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, is one of our main sources on the theatre as a central element of London social life. Though he misidentified the titles of the plays he went to see with astonishing regularity, he … Play: The Laurel and the Crown together went, Had the same Foes, and the same Banishment. 3   Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres had operated as free commercial enterprises. In 1660, however, the king issued letters patent for the creation …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… Abstract The West End of London generated new forms of networking and sociability. This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both … century) generated new forms of connection and association that we associate with the urban renaissance. The area of London from the Strand over to St James's became an embryonic pleasure district, distinctive for locations that served … a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffee houses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. The early modern West End became a …

Shopping [ Politics & Society ]

… and was frequently practiced as a leisure activity. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Fashion Luxury City Bath London Shopping Street Growing Towns and Shopping Streets Sociable shopping developed because in London as well as in spa towns such as Bath and in other smaller urban centres, genuine shopping streets, often with more … was a necessary precondition for displaying this item – at home, or in sociable leisure spaces such as promenades and theatres, in the metropolis as in spas. Goods were frequently gendered: the display of certain material objects (china, …