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 … 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, … play being done, we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw “The Wilde Gallant,” performed by the King’s house, but it was ill acted, and the play so poor a thing as I never saw in my life almost, and so little …
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