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… tied to the British monarchy. The ban on theatre during the Interregnum, 2 and its revival in the early months of the Restoration, has led many observers to symbolically link the fate of the stage to that of the crown. See, for example, … Lacy: ‘Defend me, O friends, of th’upper Region /From the hard censure of this lower Legion. 7 4 . See J. Powell, Restoration Theatre Production, London, Routledge, 1984, p. 12, and P. Holland, The Ornament of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 16. 5 . See in particular T. Keenan’s recent study on …
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