London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… 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 eighteenth century in particular, it was, perhaps above all else, … men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk!’ 12 The give and take between the stage and the stalls was part of the pleasure of the show, whether improvised or rehearsed, but the texts themselves were rife with allusions sometimes so …
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