Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Performance of text | Caroline Norton | CN
tried a new genre with a play, The Gypsy Father, which opened on this date at Covent Garden Theatre
; it was not a success with the audience and seems not to have been printed. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 78 |
Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | Of the twenty-eight plays that JB
wrote, only seven were professionally produced. These were De Monfort,The Family Legend, Henriquez, The Separation, The Election, Constantine Paleologus, and Basil... |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | FB
's tragedy The Siege of Sinope opened at Covent Garden
; it played for ten nights—a gratifyingly long run. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381 |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | FB
's first musical, Rosina, set to music by William Shields
, opened at Covent Garden
. Mary Robinson
performed in the mainpiece at Covent Garden that night; but if she was in Rosina... |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | Marian, FB
's second musical, also set by Shields
, began an excellent run (though less phenomenal than Rosina's) at Covent Garden
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381 |
Performance of text | Charlotte Smith | CS
's only extant play, the comedy What Is She?, opened anonymously at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 400 Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 289 |
Performance of text | Robert Browning | RB
's tragedy in blank verse entitled Strafford was first performed at Covent Garden
; it was published the same year. Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill. 74-5 The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Performance of text | Oscar Wilde | The first performance was heard at Covent Garden
of the English opera written by Richard Strauss
to the text of OW
's Salome. Tydeman, William, and Steven Price. Wilde—Salome. Cambridge University Press. 185 |
Performance of text | E. M. Forster | Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten
's opera based on Herman Melville
's novel, with libretto by EMF
and Eric Crozier
, opened at the Royal Opera House
, Covent Garden, London. Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 216 Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon. 60 |
Performance of text | Anne Burke | A play was put on at Covent Garden
entitled The Ward of the Castle and ascribed to Miss Burke. Several sources ascribe this to AB
, but she was a married woman, and would... |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
played Lady Elizabeth Freelove (opposite her husband
) in her comic interlude The Day After the Wedding; or, a Wife's First Lesson, at Covent Garden
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
had her first great hit when her comedy The Belle's Stratagem opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 319 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's next play, Modern Honour; or, The Sharper in High Life, opened at Covent Garden
, only to prove her first unequivocal flop. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 9 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | Another comedy by HC
, The World as it Goes; or, A Party at Montpelier, opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 411 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's next play, King O'Neil; or, The Irish Brigade, opened at Covent Garden
: a spectacular comedy-drama. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 15 |
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