West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. The early modern West End became a place that shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, encounter and … could take refreshment. 2 Booksellers and art auctions became common sights on the Strand in the eighteenth century, spaces that helped construct an intelligentsia. 3 The promotion of luxury was augmented at the beginning of the … Queen's Theatre, depending on who was on the throne). Its high prices maintained exclusivity. As well as music it was a space for courtship, for flirting and, above all, for gossip. People would move between boxes which were a site for …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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