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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… Résumé At London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, sociability practices were realized, queried and transformed by actors and audiences. This entry describes the … modes of sociability within the theatre, from normative theatre-going practices to disruptions such as riots. The name ‘Drury Lane’ also became an important cultural marker of an aspirational, genteel, and performative literary sociability …

Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]

… > Print culture Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Theatre Print culture entertainment advertisement Covent Garden Drury Lane Ancestors of the theatrical programme, playbills were a common sight throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth … London streets. In the introduction for The London Stage, it is suggested that by the turn of the nineteenth century, Drury Lane was producing around 187 great bills for each of their performances. 2  These large bills were produced in red …

Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]

… > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Commodity Bodies Theatre Dancers Ballyhoo John Weaver Marie Sallé Jean-Georges Noverre Drury Lane ballerina gentleman patron Arising out of the French court, the ballet during the long eighteenth century in England … dancers of the time. 5  Another progressive dance revisionist, Jean-Georges Noverre, brought his  Ballet D’Action  to Drury Lane Theatre. 6   This created an anticipatory frenzy amongst the elite for more ‘exotic forms of entertainment’ …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… His pioneering and acclaimed performance in The Merchant of Venice as Shylock  at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, hastened his entry and participation in the sociable British Enlightenment. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés … and struggled to lose his Irish brogue 2  to speak with a flawless English accent on London stages (Lincoln’s Inn Field, Drury Lane, Haymarket or Covent Garden Theatres). He was also involved throughout his life in recurring disputes and …

Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… was an Irish-born British playwright, poet, politician, 'clubbable' orator and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as  The Rivals (1775 ),   The School for Scandal  (1777), The Critic (1779) or … Byron, Monody on the Death of the Right Honorable R. B. Sheridan, written at the request of a friend to be spoken at Drury Lane Theatre (London: John Murray, Albemarble Street, 1816). …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, 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 … a distinctly urban popular culture shaped by an appreciation of lewdness. Sexuality was an integral part of sociability. Drury Lane was notorious not only for the poverty of its inhabitants but also for prostitution. In 1725, there were 107 …