Archive for: penny gaffs
Gaffs, dukeys, geggies and penny theatres
I invited Ann Featherstone, Victorian theatre researcher and novelist, to write a guest post on penny gaffs (partly in response to the ‘Beggar’s theatre’ post – see September 2014 archive). Here it is! Penny gaffs, penny theatres, penny dukeys, geggies were all slang words for unlicensed entertainment spaces in […]