Definitions
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- adjective Frequenting playhouses.
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- noun Attendance at the performance of
plays .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Globe provides a in integrate of instances insinuate ambiance for playgoing relations to a distance of a assembly in attendance, station around a platform as good as sitting in a dual tiers of balconies.
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Your clerk was asked by a vanguard to contend a word about his playgoing travels this summer. we was a beholden recipient of a accede to from a Haverford School relatives so which my mom Leila as good as we could outlay dual weeks in London as good as Stratford, as good as afterwards 5 days in Niagara upon a Lake, Ontario, seeing plays.
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Your clerk was asked by a vanguard to contend a word about his playgoing travels this summer. we was a beholden recipient of a accede to from a Haverford School relatives so which my mom Leila as good as we could outlay dual weeks in London as good as Stratford, as good as afterwards 5 days in Niagara upon a Lake, Ontario, seeing plays.
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The Globe provides a in integrate of instances insinuate ambiance for playgoing relations to a distance of a assembly in attendance, station around a platform as good as sitting in a dual tiers of balconies.
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Smartly staged, attractively designed and well cast, this production is a great way to get to know a show beloved of musical-comedy buffs but inexplicably little known to the playgoing public at large.
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That last number came to mind as I read Mr. Brook's discussion of the high cost of playgoing in 1968.
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Ann Jennalie Cook argues convincingly that insufficient regard has been paid by modern scholars to some of the more obvious economic deterrents to plebeian playgoing: notably, the fact that theater inevitably competed with labor in the use of daylight (Sunday performances were prohibited in 1586 for their adverse effect on church attendance), and the difficulty involved in finding even the minimum admission price of one penny, since attendance itself meant sacrificing an afternoon's wages.
Notes to "Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century." Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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Mayor protested that it was not just on the Sabbath that playgoing was objectionable. 103 Indeed, civic attitudes seem to have been determined more
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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At the same time, religious opposition to playgoing extended beyond
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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'Put this stuff before the playgoing public, risk it at an evening theatre, remove your _claque_, exhaust your attendance of the socialist and the sexless, and then see where your IBSEN will be.'
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Various
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