Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… market and the halo of its prestigious association with the Crown. The public sense of Drury Lane as an official site of culture intensified following the Licensing Act of 1737. New and revised plays had to be examined and licensed by the … spectacles offered at its rival patent theatre, Covent Garden) 24 resulted in this theatre’s association with high culture of national significance. ‘Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. This present Tuesday, September 18, 1798, Their Majesties …
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