Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… Image Charles Burney [collector], ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777. Image ‘Playbills printed on silk, prefaced by note by Banks’, The British Museum, ©The Trustees of the British Museum, … Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784 Abstract More than just simple adverts for the theatres, the ‘playbill’ or ‘bill of the play’ had a significant role in sociability throughout the eighteenth century. On the London …
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