… This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, … End locations for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffee houses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also … West End became a place that shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, encounter and the dissemination of print culture. 1 1 . Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of …