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… a voice ‘scarce rais’d about the Tone of a Whisper, either in Tenderness, Resignation, innocent Distress, or Jealousy, supress’d’; and view the scenes and costumes to greater effect. 3 3 . Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley … in Deborah Payne Fisk (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 9. As audience capacity grew from approximately 700 in the first Theatre Royal to around 2000 spectators … most part inaudible to the whole audience, who could only collect from deep tones […] her action and gesture, what her expression meant.’ 6 Increasingly large audiences, however, still found much to enjoy in the spectacle the expanded …
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