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Especially in one that dealt with characters from different social classes: giving the full version of the name for the master each time he appeared, but only nicknames for slaves used to be a rather common way to alert a reader or play-goer who fell into what category.

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Given that an article also written in 1819 noted the impossibility of a "play-goer [to] fail to receive those instructions and improvements, which it is the purpose of the drama to convey," Taylor probably expected a good response, or at least a captive audience for his prescriptive material. 79

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

I like to think of those evenings in England when “In Dahomey” captured the London play-goer and the black King was more than once commanded to appear before the white one.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

I like to think of those evenings in England when “In Dahomey” captured the London play-goer and the black King was more than once commanded to appear before the white one.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

I like to think of those evenings in England when “In Dahomey” captured the London play-goer and the black King was more than once commanded to appear before the white one.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

I was never much given to theatrical entertainments, -- that is, at no time of my life was I ever what they call a regular play-goer; but on some occasion of a benefit-night, which was expected to be very productive, and indeed turned out so, Cleora expressing a desire to be present, I could do no less than offer, as I did very willingly, to squire her and her mother to the pit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

The analogy doubtless exists, but in his wish to bring home to his readers the inner meaning of plays, then no longer acted, he was perhaps tempted to press a resemblance to works, familiar to every play-goer, further than it could fairly be made to go.

English literary criticism Various

I have never been much of a play-goer, but have occasionally visited the theatres when remarkable performers have appeared.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

As a matter of fact, all these plays, unlike as they are to each other, and not only these, but many more -- not a few of them fairly well known to the American play-goer -- are due to the collaboration of M.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

He listens to their testimony with the air of a bored play-goer at a very poor farce.

The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch