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… sets of wings and shutters slid open and closed before their eyes without any intervening curtain drop. 4 An evening’s entertainment might include a five-act play and a shorter afterpiece, each with a prologue and epilogue, as well as dances, music, acrobatic or other entertainments between the acts or the main and afterpiece. 4 . Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Theatre’, in Deborah Payne Fisk … with ‘repeated Huzzas.’ 14 Audience participation could reshape a text’s emotional and artistic affect, breaking the entertainment into new divisions with vociferous affirmations, or loud catcalls and hisses. When, on 18 October 1751, the …
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