Talk:Gibbon's Tennis Court

A fact from Gibbon's Tennis Court appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Latham and Matthews?

What work does note 7 cite? Paul August ☎ 15:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, it got lost. Hang on... —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There we go. Thanks. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I also find note 3 a bit confusing. It seemed at first to be citing two works, one by Edward Langhans, and one by Deborah Fisk. after a bit of googling I now see that Langhans' "The theatre" is contained in The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, edited by Deborah Fisk. Perhaps a better citation might be:

Langhans, Edward A. "The theatre", The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Ed. Deborah Payne Fisk. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Also since I assume that the caveat that "Some sources place the opening on November 9 instead" (btw which sources?) contained in note 3 applies only to the first use of note 3, I think that either there should be only one use of note 3, (placed where the second is now) or there should be two different notes, the first containing the caveat, the second one not.

Paul August ☎ 18:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I turned the caveat into a parenthetical; feel free and format the author/editor/chapter/book citations any way you see fit; you won't hurt my feelings -- I was just trying to reproduce from memory how I'd last seen {{cite book}} do it. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:40, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, he source for 8 vs 9 November was pretty much this page, talking about when they left the Red Bull; rereading that, it would seem a choice between the 10th and the 8th actually; oops. Digging into in a book search, I found little support for any specific dates other than the 8th, so I've removed all but that for now. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]