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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… and Politics in the English Civil War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998; J. Clare, Drama of the English Republic: 1649–1660, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002). 3 . J. Denham, ‘The Prologue to his Majesty At the … the increase in ticket prices and the ensuing riots and protests, christened the ‘Old price Riots,’ strongly suggest a public sufficiently invested in the theatre that it warranted an organised revolt, and for whom the increase was not … study on playhouse staging T. Keenan, Restoration Staging, 1660-74, London, Routledge, 2016. 6 . Amongst the numerous publications on the subject, see in particular H. Love, ‘Who were the Restoration audience?’, The Yearbook of English …
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What a Minister ought to do upon his Arrival in a Foreign Court (1738) [ Practices ]
… prevail 1 often over the greatest Interests. This is what happens more commonly in the Courts of Princes, than in Republicks, unless these last be drawn in by a small Number of ambitious Men, who seize upon the principal Authority of the Commonwealth, and who sacrifice the Publick Interests to their own particular Views, and to the Advantages which they reap from thence. … "When a Minister …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… while keeping her house near Saint James's Place. To her, court sociability now became perceived from the inside: the public dimension of her contacts with the royal family turned private, since the Royal couple occasionally stepped into …
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