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The Field of the Forty Footsteps
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In the first months of the Restoration, Jeremy accompanies his uncle Diggory back to London, where theatres can reopen after years of Puritan prohibition. They join Mark Latimer’s company and meet Paulina, an orange-seller determined to act, while trying to turn a disused tennis court into a playhouse.
The company’s practical struggle for premises, audiences and protection reveals how uncertain theatrical life remained after Charles II’s return. Trease makes actors and theatre workers central to the restoration of public culture rather than treating it only as a royal celebration.
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