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You’re Having A Laugh – Part Forty Two

You’re Having A Laugh – Part Forty Two - the lost play of William Shakespeare, Vortigern and Rowena, or was it?

The lost play of Shakespeare, 1796

During the 18th century the Bard of Stratford had a resurgence of popularity, some theatres dedicating themselves purely to staging his plays. Collectors were on the hunt for relics or memorabilia connected with Shakespeare. He was a bit of an enigma, though. Apart from his will, he had left no personal documentation, letters, diaries, not even a line from…

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I Predict A Riot – Part Twenty Three

I Predict A Riot – Part Twenty Three

The Old Price Riots, 1809 We tend to think of consumerism and direct consumer action to rectify a perceived wrong as being fairly recent phenomena but the Old Price Riots which engulfed the new theatre at London’s Covent Garden in 1809 show that it was nothing new. At the turn of the 19th century theatre was extremely popular and audiences would be made up from a cross-section of all the classes.…

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