London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… prologues and epilogues, and of the sociological make-up of audiences and performance spaces, paints a picture of London theatre during the long eighteenth century as a complex ecosystem of sociabilities in which socio-economics and … diarist and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, is one of our main sources on the theatre as a central element of London social life. Though he misidentified the titles of the plays he went to see with astonishing regularity, he … at all, all the whole play, nor any body else, though Mr. Clerke whom we met here did commend it to us’ 1 Indeed, the London theatre was not merely a place where one enjoyed aesthetic pleasures and artistic representation; during the long …
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