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For the Benefit of Mrs. Robinson.

By His Majesty’s Company of Comedians.

At the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, this present Tuesday, being the 2d of February, will be presented, A Comedy call’d, The Old Batchelour. With new Entertainments of Singing between the Acts. The Boxes to be open’d to the Pit, and no Persons admitted but by Tickests, which will be deliver’d by the Box-keepers at the Theatre, at Half a Guinea each Ticket. NB. The Tickets delivered for Sir Fopling Flutter, will be taken at this Play.

Seven English Restoration Plays!

“FROM 1642 onward for eighteen years, the theaters of England remained nominally closed. There was of course evasion of the law; but whatever performances were offered had to be given in secrecy, before small companies in private houses, or in taverns located three or four miles out of town. No actor or spectator was safe, especially during the early days of the Puritan rule. Least of all was…