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The Social Life of the Performer on the Yorkshire Circuit, 1766–1785
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
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In the second half of the eighteenth century many members of English provincial theatre companies acquired a high level of social acceptability. Influential citizens ranging from the aristocracy to the military and from the high sheriff to members of various social and civic clubs began to lend their patronage to country theatre performances and to particular performers. “So they became quite respectable members of local society … [and their] old reputations as shiftless and untrustworthy fitted only the poorest members of the profession.”
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