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… 1793, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6282. Image ‘Scene from “School for Scandal” being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London; four actors on stage, the audience watching from boxes on either side’, 1778, © The Trustees of the … 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 …

… ‘Garrick in the Green Room’, 1829, The Trustees of the British Museum,1927,0609.5. Image ‘A Plan of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with the notorious Green Room’, March 1794, The National Archives, London, MPE 1/1605. Image Corner, after J. C. … 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 …

… 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 …

… The Rake’s Progress sets its third scene, known as the orgy scene, in the Rose Tavern, a tavern whose proximity to the Drury Lane theatre made it a popular site of resort for those attending a play. Hogarth associates the tavern not with polite … The Shakespeare Head was attached to the Covent Garden theatre and the Bedford Coffee House, and like the Rose Tavern in Drury Lane was particularly associated with the sex trade. In his London Journal, James Boswell records how he visited …

… (1819). 5  Her play, Fashionable Friends , was first privately performed at Strawberry Hill in 1801 and then in 1802 in Drury Lane, where it received bad reviews and was taken off the stage; a second play, a farce, was written but no manuscript … Papers: Being the Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852), ed. Lewis Melville (London: Lane, 1914). Culley, Amy, ‘ Aging, Authorship and Female Networks in the Life Writing of Mary Berry (1763-1852) and …

… 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’ that was …