London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Troop: Or, Monsieur Raggou, London, William Crook and Thomas Dring, 1672. Needless to say, texts so obviously steeped in rhetorical tradition must be approached with caution. Nonetheless, the stalls do seem to have been the privileged domain … solely based on economic criteria and not, despite suspicion, on any social distinction. Also according to the rhetorical tradition of the prologues, the most expensive boxes were spaces where women of high society entertained: in … from writing for the theatre—regularly ascribed failures in her writing to her gender, though this is likely another a rhetorical device. 8 . The image at the top of this entry features a 1788 mounted fan leaf promoting the King’s …
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