 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...opening of Drury Lane in September 1747 at the start of Garrick's twenty-nine years of management: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.34 If the audience wanted pantomime, farce, musicals and technical razzledazzle - and they did... | |
 | Paul Whitfield White, Suzanne R. Westfall - 2006 - 340 pages
...paramount importance. CHAPTER II The aadience as paIron: The Knight of the Burning Pestle Alexander Leggatt The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Samuel Johnson, "Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drnry-Lane i747" Halfway through the fifteenth-century... | |
 | Thomas Keymer - 2006 - 298 pages
...the day": Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. ("Drury-Lane Prologue," 1747, lines 48, 50-54) Still, a writer-actor-manager can control many more... | |
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Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
