West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… print shops, coffee houses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. The early modern West End became a place that shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, … by the closure of theatres. 9 Yet Covent Garden (designed originally as a space for the elite) also produced a bustling plebeian culture based upon low life pleasures. Samuel Pepys saw his first Punch and Judy show there in 1662 (Gatrell …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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