Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… Yale University Library, Lewis Walpole Library, 770.09.00.06, [1770?]. Résumé At London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, sociability practices were realized, queried and transformed by actors and audiences. This entry describes the theatre’s physical spaces, then considers modes of sociability within the theatre, from normative theatre-going practices to disruptions such as riots. The name ‘Drury Lane’ also became an important cultural marker of an aspirational, genteel, and performative literary sociability outside the institution, in theatrical discourse across various media from newspapers to novels. Drury Lane …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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