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The Spectator, No. 49 (26 April 1711) [ Places ]
… the Persons from whom they obtain daily Favours, but still practise a skilful Attention to whatever is uttered by those with whom they converse. We are very Curious to observe the Behaviour of Great Men and their Clients; but the same … is near one of the Inns of Court, and Beaver has the Audience and Admiration of his Neighbours from Six 'till within a Quarter of Eight, at which time he is interrupted by the Students of the House; some of whom are ready dress'd for Westminster , at Eight in a Morning, with Faces as busie as if they were retained in every Cause there; and others come in their Night-Gowns to saunter away …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… Personal Encounters (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), p. 1–12. Urban sociability to settle the price of cultural goods Witnessing a Custom house sale of ships ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by … (Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991), p. 32. The auction house provided these communities with sociable space, by also maintaining and redistributing their cultural identities from sale to sale. The British antiquary and herald John Ive lived happily retired in Great Yarmouth and maintained his links with the Society of Antiquaries and the London Royal Society mainly by correspondence, but the sale of a fellow …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Whiston and others showed demonstrations of mechanics in coffeehouses. Later, Benjamin Martin commercialized experiments with static electricity, and Joseph Priestley and his associates introduced new gases in public lectures. Experiments were both commodities supplying a kind of cultural consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords … after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to the truth of what they saw. An audience of male aristocrats and gentlemen certified …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… for a theatre or group, produced on the day of the performance, and then distributed to potential audiences, with some also available for sale during the production. They were mostly on paper, but sometimes silk or satin playbills … its content and its typography. The physical proximity of names on a playbill implies the proximity of such individuals within the sociable network of the theatre. 8 The positioning and sizing of names also suggests something of a certain player’s interactions with their audience. On the playbill, star performers can be recognised by the position and size of their name. As an …
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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Image ‘Mounted fan-leaf, with a plan of the King's Theatre for 1788, showing the position of the boxes and names of the occupants; spangled … the theatre as a central element of London social life. Though he misidentified the titles of the plays he went to see with astonishing regularity, he mentioned every noteworthy personality he encountered there with unfailing accuracy. Pepys’ diary entry for February 23, 1662/1663, is but one example among others. Directly after …
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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… to the importance of pathos and spectacle during this time. This type of theatre encouraged spectators to identify with the characters and their passions. Sociability thus operated on two levels—on stage, and in the audience. It also … virtues, but also for its political and moral impact. Diderot would declare that the role of theatre was to ‘inspire men with love of virtue and abhorrence of vice...,’ 3 two qualities that Enlightenment thinkers saw as the genesis of sociability. French theatre, suffused with this spirit, underwent a profound transformation that affected comedy in particular. Laughter was no longer the …
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