The playgoing mob always includes groundlings who delight exclusively in dumb shows and noise.
No spectator more ardently applauded such bastard sentiment than the playgoing Pepys.
In the methods of representation, Pepys's period of playgoing was coeval with many most important innovations, which seriously affected the presentation of Shakespeare on the stage.
The pioneer of the great scheme of adaptation was Sir William D'Avenant, and he was aided in Pepys's playgoing days by no less a personage than Dryden.
His playgoing diary thus became an invaluable record of a new birth of theatrical life in London.
In the first place, I believe the theme of ambition has no great dramatic hold, or a very slender one, on the playgoing public of to-day.
Champmesle became the idol of the playgoing public, and "all Paris" flocked to the Hotel de Bourgogne, seemingly indifferent to the bill, provided they could see the now famous actress.
Their tragedies would not so often have been rendered unnatural by the employment of rhyme, and their comedies would have exhibited the manners and the morals of the English nation, and not merely of the playgoing part of it.
Give the playgoing public what it wants and no consideration of National Waste or of Daylight Saving will keep it from the theatre.
Whence comes the playgoingpublic of to-day, and what does it want?
In a period of dramatic productivity, dramatic criticism has an indisputable function and is charged with an undeniable duty, both to the aspiring play-makers and to the main body of the playgoing public.
He was seeking ever to give the playgoing public what it had been accustomed to enjoy in the theater, better in degree, no doubt, but the same in kind.
Playgoing had now become as a vice or a misdemeanour, to be prosecuted in secret--like dram-drinking.
Indeed, the Stuarts generally were well disposed towards the arts, and a decidedly playgoing family.
Within six years of the Restoration, he, who was in frequency of playgoing only second to Pepys, but as sharp an observer and a graver censor than the Admiralty clerk, addressed a letter to Lord Cornbury on this important subject.
And as the troupes of the city increased in wealth and dignity, and as the playgoing public grew in size and importance, the old makeshift arrangement became more and more unsatisfactory.
The doctrine that all playgoing was wicked was naturally confirmed, and the dramatists retorted by ridiculing all that their enemies thought respectable.
The effect was to strengthen the prejudice which held that playgoing was immoral in itself, and that an actor deserved to be treated as a 'vagrant'--the class to which he legally belonged.
Nor was there any marked improvement in the tastes of the playgoing classes.
Contat was exceedingly charitable, and this fact no doubt contributed not a little to the immense popularity which she enjoyed with the playgoing public.
Raucourt had risen that morning unknown, at least so far as Paris was concerned; she retired to bed a celebrity, the idol of the playgoing public.
Raucourt with the playgoing public was enhanced by an unsullied reputation off the stage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "playgoing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
