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Duke's House ("The Opera", Lincoln's Inn Fields)
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The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from:
- Built-up London – Hollar's 1666 map before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – Hollar's 1666 map after the Fire
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- 1661
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Brian Link to this
The Rocque map shows a theatre just off Lincoln's Inn Fields. I wonder if this is the building referred to as the Opera.
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...
vicenzo Link to this
In 1661 Davenant converted a covered tennis court into Lincoln's Inn Fields
http://www.hoasm.org/VIIA/Davenant.html
map of the Teatro.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/murray/Rest...
Michael Robinson Link to this
Davenant & Restoration Theatre
The first article is splendid & well worth reading; much allusion to stage mechanics etc. in so far as they are known, & includes substantial reference to SP and the diary as the major contemporary source for audience reactions.
Restoration_spectacular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_specta...
Concerns mainly the post-diary period:-
Restoration_comedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_comedy
Mary Link to this
The Duke's Theatre.
The following link provides an image of this theatre and a brief history of its future (in Restoration terms).
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/librarie...