"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."
"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
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Source: Timothy Zahn (2011). “Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends: The 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.268, Del Rey
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