London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… dynamics converged, making it a prime space of sociability. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Audience Court Theatre Women Samuel Pepys , celebrated diarist and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, is one of our main sources on the theatre … distinction. Also according to the rhetorical tradition of the prologues, the most expensive boxes were spaces where women of high society entertained: in Georgian England, the boxes, rented yearly, were virtual extensions of the drawing … the boxes as being particularly sensitive to the supposed indecency of the plays. 9 However, there is no record of a women’s group lobbying to have the plays condemned, and it may be that their supposed indignation was actually a ploy …
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