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… 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, …
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