Suddenly, touring became respectable, and it meant that people didn't feel that they had to travel 250 miles up to London to see a good play.
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.Timothy West
I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
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Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
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Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
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You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
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That's what plays were about... smart people who did murders, or inherited lots of money or had love affairs or divorces or whatever.
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