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… to parting with his share of the Theatre [graphic]’, Folger Shakespeare Library, 27762, 1794. 1 . For contemporary prints that give visual evidence of Drury Lane Theatre’s appearance and imagined reconstructions rendered in … (Pittburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973), p. 90. It was not always possible to mollify an unhappy audience with printed or performed apologies from Drury Lane’s players or managers: audiences opposed such appeals to social standards … exchanges besides those occurring between audience and actors: licensed vendors sold fruit inside the theatre; printers hawked books of the play in the theatre’s passageways; and prostitutes sought custom in the pit or galleries. In …
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