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… it sent four of the Royal Messengers, and a strong Guard, to suppress all Disorders.’ 16 16 . William Egerton, Faithful Memoirs of the Life, Amours and Performances, of That Justly Celebrated, and Most Eminent Actress of Her Time, Mrs. Anne Oldfield Interspersed with Several Other Dramatical Memoirs (London: Edmund Curll, 1731), pp. 31-32. The sociable occasion of attending a play at Drury Lane Theatre was … the publication of Colley Cibber’s witty Apology (1740), the market for dramatic histories, actors’ biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies—genres frequently intermingled—expanded. Novels such as Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778) …
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