Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… to familiarising the visitors with newly fashionable visual and musical culture: Italianate practices such as masquerades, exoticism with a Chinese pavilion, and concerts in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created … cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Advertisement Chinoiserie Entertainement Exoticism Luxury Masquerade Pleasure gardens Politeness Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which … 1742. It charged higher admission prices (usually 2 shillings on ordinary days, and up to 2 guineas – 42 shillings – for masquerades) than the Vauxhall pleasure garden on the opposite south bank of the Thames (1 shilling), so as to be more …
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