The Drama's Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience JUV009030 New York Times bestselling author

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The Drama's Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience JUV009030 New York Times bestselling authorThe drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected these forces in the content of the plays of the period and in an increased awareness among playgoers that the theatre "must please to live." Drawing from a