Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Travel Mary Latter
Theatre manager John Rich enabled ML to make a ten-week visit to London, staying at his house near Covent Garden Theatre . She was back there again for a second, shorter visit at the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Latter
In her prefatory essay ML expresses little enthusiasm for the life of an author. She sees writing for bread as an extreme of slavery,
Latter, Mary. The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian. C. Bathurst.
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especially for a woman, and says she would much rather...
Textual Production Jane Porter
JP 's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean 's revival of The Jew of Malta...
Textual Production Mary Latter
Three months after the death of John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden Theatre , ML finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.
The...
Textual Production Mary Latter
This play by ML is distantly related to Tasso 's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 5 (1805): 333
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 158-9, 244
Slagle, editor of JB
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's The Midnight Hour, translated from Guerre ouverte, by Antoine-Jean Bourlin (better known as Dumaniant), was published after a production at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
64 (1787): 479
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
192
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Another play by BBBD , called Isaure and having as protagonist a refined patrician beauty,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt.
383
was intended to be performed at Covent Garden as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble , but it...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
60 (1785): 393
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Reception Joanna Baillie
In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Baillie...
Publishing Elizabeth Griffith
After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...
Publishing Mary Latter
Rich had accepted the play for Covent Garden and encouraged ML to train further as a dramatist. She here ascribes good intentions to Rich, but sharp practice to the present Managers, their Adherents, and Dependants...
Publishing Anna Maria Porter
Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre visited AMP to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him.
Davis, Tracy C. “The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-34.
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Publishing Elizabeth Inchbald
Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...

Timeline

7 December 1732: John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...

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7 December 1732

John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent Garden , the Theatre Royal, and moved his farces and pantomimes there from the other Theatre Royal in Drury Lane .

1759: David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants...

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1759

David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants from the gallery of Drury Lane Theatre in London.

26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.

14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...

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14 October 1769

Garrick 's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane , where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.

27 February 1776: A woman's artificial mountain of powdered...

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27 February 1776

A woman's artificial mountain of powdered and ornamented hair saved her from serious injury when she was hit by a liquor keg thrown from the upper gallery at Covent Garden Theatre .

23 September 1782: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...

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23 September 1782

Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month reconstruction, enlargement, and renovation.

10 February 1786: For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre,...

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10 February 1786

For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre , Frances Abington chose to play the comic male part of the servant Scrub in Farquhar 's Beaux' Stratagem.

15 February 1791: The actress Harriet Pye Esten (daughter of...

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15 February 1791

The actress Harriet Pye Esten (daughter of novelist Anna Maria Bennett ) gave a highly successful recitation at Covent Garden Theatre of William Collins 's Ode on the Passions.

12 April 1799: Frances Abington, a popular actress who had...

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12 April 1799

Frances Abington , a popular actress who had been before the public for forty-four years (with a short-lived retirement in 1797-8), made her last appearance at Covent Garden Theatre .

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