Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… Charles Beecher Hogan, The London Stage, 1660-1800: Part 5: 1776-1800, 2 vols. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968), I, p. xx. 3 . The earliest extant example for an indoor performance seems to be from 1687 but the majority … performance of Mrs. Haller on a previous night ‘excited the strongest and most affecting interest—the audience expressed, in acclamations, their rapturous delight’. 6 4 . Christopher B. Balme, ‘Playbills and the Theatrical Public … and Thomas Postlewaite (eds), Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010), pp. 37-62. 5 . In their article ‘Archives, Numbers, Meaning: The Eighteenth-Century Playbill at Scale’, …
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