Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… the Kit-Cat Club made other self-publicising gestures: paying collectively for Dryden’s funeral in 1700, a musical talent competition based around The Judgement of Paris in 1701, and, more ideologically, a banned demonstration … The Age of Patronage: The Arts in England 1660-1750 (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 …
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