London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Image ‘Mounted fan-leaf, with a plan of the King's Theatre for 1788, showing the position of the boxes and names of the occupants; spangled border’, © The Trustees of the … prologues and epilogues, and of the sociological make-up of audiences and performance spaces, paints a picture of London theatre during the long eighteenth century as a complex ecosystem of sociabilities in which socio-economics and gender dynamics converged, making it a prime space of sociability. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Audience Court Theatre Women Samuel Pepys, celebrated diarist and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, is one of our main sources on the …
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