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… staging, see Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces’, in Susan J. Owen (ed.), A Companion to Restoration Drama (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 3-18. The last theatre on the site, designed by Benjamin Wyatt, opened … and afterpiece. 4 . Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Theatre’, in Deborah Payne Fisk (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 9. As audience capacity grew from approximately 700 … most effectual means to baffle the Force of Discipline, to emasculate peoples Spirits, and Debauch their Manners.’ 11 Restoration-era playgoing occasioned self-monitoring; Pepys assessed himself a monetary forfeit (given to charity) for …
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