Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… of the 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 … ‘affective sensibility of the collective becomes desired in itself’ in a ‘shared sense of the power of numbers.’ 13 12 . Frances Burney, 1772, The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, ed. by Lars E. Troide, 12 volumes (Oxford: … xenophobic audiences protested the presence of so-called ‘French dancers’, mirroring Britain’s political tensions with France; and the Half-Price riots of 1763, when audiences smashed up both Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres to protest …
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