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Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, for a thorough discussion of this issue. 2 See Marc Baer, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 3 Robert D. Hume, “John Rich as Manager and Entrepreneur,” in Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow,

The Stage’s Glory: John Rich 1692-1761 (29-60). Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011. 4 Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

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Press, 1995. 6 See Daniel O’Quinn, Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1800. Baltimore, MD: The

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 and David Francis Taylor, Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.