James Jeremiah Lynch

Votes & Proceedings

• Author(s): New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council

• Categories: New South Wales

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1895
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The City Record

• Author(s): New York (N.Y.)

• Categories: New York (N.Y

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1886
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Documents of the Board of Councilmen

• Author(s): New York (N.Y.). Board of Assistant Aldermen

• Categories: Municipal government

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1862
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 ...: New York and New Jersey

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1865
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Drama's Patrons

• Author(s): Leo Hughes

• Categories: Performing Arts

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-12-18
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• Publisher: University of Texas Press

The 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 wealth of amusing and informative contemporary accounts, Leo Hughes presents abundant evidence that the theatre-going public proved zealous, and sometimes even unruly, in asserting its role and rights. He describes numerous species of individual ...