Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… Image Charles Burney [collector], ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777. Image ‘Playbills … Elder, ‘The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784 Résumé More than just simple adverts for the theatres, the ‘playbill’ or ‘bill of the play’ had a significant role in sociability throughout the eighteenth century. On the London stage, in provincial theatres, and even in private theatricals, playbills were an established mode of communication between the theatre and …
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