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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… 1  Covent Garden’s social life was most obviously fuelled by the eponymous theatre and the nearby Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but was also served by various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, … 71, 80, 139, 144, 187. The theatres grew throughout the century and gave more people more opportunities for sociability. Drury Lane increased its capacity from around 700 to 2,300, before it was demolished in 1791 and rebuilt to an even …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… 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 …

Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… naturally drawn to sociable spaces, including the theatre, for which he wrote plays. In 1714 he became the manager of Drury Lane. He was also interested in community: of nation; of Protestants (including dissenters); of party; and of polite … The Plebeian , which was politically biting. In retaliation, the government removed him from his management of Drury Lane theatre to which he was only restored once Walpole gained the ascendancy in 1721. For Steele, political …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… survive. A semi-reliable contemporary recorded that it was first convened at the Cat and Fiddle Tavern on Gray’s Inn Lane, owned by a pastry-maker named Christopher (Kit) Cat (or Catling) and that the meetings dined on mutton pies known … (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972), p. 148. Subscription music recitals were similarly organised at the Drury Lane and Lincoln’s Inn theatres during 1703-04, and Kit-Cat subscription funded a revival of three plays at the Queen’s …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… (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 …

English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… two-volume collection of plays by Moore, Murphy, Kelley, and Coleman that had all been written between 1755 and 1768 at Drury Lane. 7   Yet it was mostly Claude Pierre Patu’s 1756 publication of Choix de petites pièces du Théâtre anglais that …