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1735-1736
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in th^ spring Fielding’s
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offered plays
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of Comedians gave it new life with a long run of Pasquin. Tlie
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of the Nobility again offered Italian opera at the King’s Theatr
presenting his operatic season at Covent Garden. Summer offerings
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Lincoln’s Inn Fields, tire New Haymarkct, and Richmond, with
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Court Fair lasting fourteen days, Bartliolomew Fair limited to
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days and Soutlrwark Fair to three days
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tlreatres and opera liouses lield generally to their customary
During the winter they began performances at six o
the spring, usually in May, tire opera lrouses clranged to a seven o’clock
and tire playhouses varied from six to six-tlrirty to seven in tire
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months of tire season. The playhouses conti ,rued to adverti.se Comnron
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charges for
for performances without pantomimes and to raise
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witlr pantomimic afterpieces, althouglr tlrey often
the Advanced Moirey would be returned to tlrose wlro left before tire
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to the pantomime. The clrarges at Goodmair’s Fields aird the
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scales at tire opera houses were
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lrighcr tlran at tire playhouses.
;)'he principal source of theatrical information is the London daily Post
;;; G eneral Advertiser , wlrich trad a theoretical monopoly of theatrical ad
but the Daily Advertiser often lrad notices of performances
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duplicating those iir tire London Daily Post and occasionally being
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