… social scale who relished its gaming booths. At the patent theatres (the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden) the traditional repertoire of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Beaumont and Fletcher were performed but also new plays began to …
… the Origins of an Associational World (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000), p. 228. To the aristocracy, gambling was, by tradition, an activity revolving around the royal court, authorised and regulated by the Groom Porter . 10 Under the …
… of the Insurgents) were tempered by conservative opinions on other fields (against welfare to the undeserving poor; for traditional gender roles). Social composition and the issue of respectability The sixpence entry fee made debating …
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