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Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… only as long as the performance. In theatrical societies, social hierarchy otherwise remained firmly established. Songwriter Charles Collé complained that nobles sometimes had writers create plays for which they took credit; in his …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… an act or a play; audiences clapped and shouted their admiration of a well-turned speech, a fine posture or attitude, a song or prologue, and sometimes demanded that the performers repeat it. At the height of Jacobite tensions in 1745, Drury … and the spouting clubs (London: P. Wicks and R. Lloyd, 1771), p. 1. 30 . For example, The sheep-sheering [sic]. A new song sung at Drury Lane Theatre. N.p., [1800 ?]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Drury Lane Theatre generated a …
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