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… at the Cock-pit in Whitehall,’ 19 November 1660) There were other changes to mark the departure from Elizabethan tradition: the two playhouses were shifted westward towards Westminster, and ticket prices rose (in part due to … 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 of the … 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 Georgian …
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