Lionel Burman and Robert Leach shed more light on the country's theatrical history, while Jean Baker extols the merits of joining the Society for Theatre ResearchMark Lewinski (Letters, 6 March) is not quite correct in claiming that "for the best part of 200 years until the 1840s, theatre was more or less banned from most places outside London". It is true that the three royal patent theatres (as well as the opera) d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on March 9, 2020