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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, which was a site of political meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the church of St Paul’s, situated at the western end of … eccentric mix of personalities, was a breeding ground for ideas and discussion.’ 6 James Boswell ’s descriptions of meeting literary figures, visiting theatres, hearing sermons in the church and sleeping with prostitutes perhaps best … was known as a cruising ground from early in the eighteenth century and there was at least one ‘molly house’, or gay meeting place, in the area. 8 5 . Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century: Prostitution and Control in the …
Coffeehouses | Commerce | Market | Prostitution | Theatre
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English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… Although the audience was not as socially diverse as during Elizabethan times, nevertheless the theatre remained a meeting and mingling place for different social groups, including merchants, apprentices, office-holders or state …
Audience | Diplomacy | Europe | Opera | Theatre | Translation | Travel
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Aristocracy | Diplomacy | Finance | Gambling | Memoirs | Networks | Theatre
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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… Society where he met Edmund Burke and was associated with political and legal circles like the Grecian Coffeehouse, a meeting place for generations of law students. 9 . Kristina Straub, 'The Newspaper "Trial" of Charles Macklin’s Macbeth …
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… the colony. ‘Deprived of the [Parisian] promenade’, one journalist wrote in 1786, ‘we have only the theatre as a public meeting point.’ 15 Despite the opening of some bookstores, coffeehouses and dance halls after the 1770s, the celebrated …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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