The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs
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The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs treats the history of fairs and showmen as intertwined subjects, with the preface explaining that the most convenient way to tell either story was to tell both. The preface places popular amusements within a nation's social history. The account describes competing claims by civic and monastic authorities to tolls on goods brought into the fair at Smithfield beyond the priory precincts.
A programme advertises Mr. Breslaw's new magical card deceptions and the communication of thoughts from one person to another. The programme promises bird imitations by Rossignol from Naples. The account records two occasions on which Macarthy was bitten while performing with Manders’s lions before the disaster at Bolton.
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- Thomas Frost
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
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- Theater
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