Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… Image ‘Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. This present Tuesday, September 18, 1798, Their Majesties Servants will act the tragedy called Macbeth', Yale University Library, 767 P69B, [1798]. Image S. Rawle, ‘New Theatre Royal Drury Lane, B. Wyatt Esqr., architect [graphic] / engraved by S. Rawle ; L. Francis delt’, Folger Shakespeare Library, … English Stage (London: S. Keble, R. Sare, and H. Hindmarsh, 1698), A2, p. 287. Later in the century, the writer Frances Burney described visiting Drury Lane to see a favoured actor in a role for which he was famous: David Garrick as Richard …
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