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Journal Article
Going at the theatre: toilet facilities in the early playhouses
2012
Overview
Containers were certainly provided for actors when they gave performances at court and were restricted for some hours to the relatively small spaces of temporary tiring houses. [...]in 1573-74 the Revels Office paid for \"A close stoole for the Maskers & Players &c. to vse at the Coorte\" (Feuillerat 205). Playgoers, various sources suggest, had either to bring along their own provisions for the excretion and disposal of bodily waste, or had to rely on whatever private enterprises might have sprung up to meet the need, for a price.2 Two early modern illustrations in particular give some idea of the management of sanitary matters in shared social spaces during the heyday of the London playhouses before the 1640s.
Publisher
The Society for Theatre Research,Society for Theatre Research
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