Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… were crucial tools of communication between the theatres and what Christopher Balme has termed, the ‘theatrical public sphere’. 4 This public sphere, composed of both intended and actual audiences, looked to playbills for information about upcoming … audience expressed, in acclamations, their rapturous delight’. 6 4 . Christopher B. Balme, ‘Playbills and the Theatrical Public Sphere’, in Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewaite (eds), Representing the Past: Essays in Performance …
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