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Playgoing

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play·go·er  (plgr)
n.
One who attends the theater.
playgoing n.
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Ó My female playgoing companion gasped and recoiled when she heard that, as did many others in the theater.
Sparks, curses fly in resonant play about love by Joe Brown / Las Vegas Sun
Andrew Gurr, in his invaluable analysis, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (1987), provides information about female spectators, including their station, from ladies to prostitutes, and makes the important point that we need to be aware of the variable represented by different theaters, periods, and dramatists, while succeeding scholarship has tended to concentrate exclusively upon female spectators and how they are addressed in prologues and epilogues.
Orange-women, female spectators, and roaring girls: women and theater ... by Wynne-Davies, Marion / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Both of these points have a lot to do with playwriting and playgoing through this period.
Professional playing in London and Superior Cambridge responses by Gurr, Andrew / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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