The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
had another opening night at Covent Garden
: the comedy More Ways Than One. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 663-4 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's comedy A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride opened at Covent Garden
. Its subtitle, confusingly, is the same as the title of William Congreve
's only tragedy, The Mourning Bride, 1697. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 934 |
Performance of text | Isabel Hill | IH
's comedy The First of May was first performed, at Covent Garden Theatre
in London. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 184 |
Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's Julian (a five-act verse tragedy) had the first of its eight performances at Covent Garden
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 194 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's generically hybrid spectacular play with music or comic opera, A Day in Turkey; or, The Russian Slaves, opened at Covent Garden
to great acclaim. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1409 Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto. 1 |
Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's five-act verse tragedy Foscari had the first of its fifteen performances at Covent Garden
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's last play, the comedy The Town Before You, opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1709 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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