Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… others accrued weight and resonance over the long eighteenth century. From the first, when it housed an acting company operating under one of only two theatrical letters-patent granted by King Charles II to license the production of … theatre’s managers), not by the theatres per se , by association Drury Lane became known as a ‘patent theatre’; thus, it operated under both the commercial protection of a legally limited theatre market and the halo of its prestigious …
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