SOURCE: "Audiences," in Seventeenth-Century French Drama: The Background, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 76–98.
In the following excerpt, Lough discusses the changing social status of the theatre during the seventeenth century and the composition of theatre audiences, observing that the middle classes were strongly represented.
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