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What were the large working-class audiences at 17th-century theaters called?

audience

[aw-dee-uhns] / ˈɔ di əns /




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The film seems to suggest that we — the audience to this specious display of white-knighting nobility — are monsters who can act just as heinous as the criminals.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

We, the audience, are the final piece of the puzzle, the culpable players who not only ate up the original “To Catch a Predator,” but all the media and memes that spun off it.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

But when people care deeply about them, those seemingly mundane things can take on an emotional significance the audience understands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The civic scenarios of the Camera Picta’s walls thus come with their own audience members, who serve as comical and fanciful witnesses to the elegant goings-on below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The music crashed to a stop and he turned a befuddled glare toward the audience.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

As Fargeat puts it in the exhibition’s wall text, she wanted audiences to see that women’s “pearly smiles are made of so many horrendous things that we have to keep within ourselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India's northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Trevor Nunn, formerly the artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, is adept at making potentially starchy period dramas appealing to contemporary audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Only preferred or special audiences receive such treatment.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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