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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were … produced a unique milieu of sociability and creativity: ‘Mingling, drinking, gossiping and fornicating, business and pleasure blended easily together. More than anywhere else in the capital, Covent Garden, with its eccentric mix of … a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own Time (London: John Watts, 1740), p. 241. Pleasure at well-wrought artifice, not mimetic realism, was the aim from the very first Theatre Royal, where audiences … a frequent visitor to the first Theatre Royal, recorded a visit on 8 December 1666 that illustrates a nexus of social pleasures and anxieties: There [I] did see a good part of ‘The English Monsieur,’ which is a mighty pretty play, very … more than ever I expected, the women doing better than ever I expected, and very fine women. 10 For Pepys, playhouse pleasures included the novelty of seeing actresses playing women’s roles (he also admired the skill of Edward Kynaston, …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… ‘furnish the most pleasing and surprising appearances for the entertainment of one’s friends’. He declared that the pleasure of viewing such experiments ‘bears a considerable resemblance to that of the sublime, which is one of the most …
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