Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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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/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&artist=384&other=291&x=11&y=11
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/Restoration/Theatres/ThTennis.html
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_spectacular
Concerns mainly the post-diary period:-
Restoration_comedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_comedy