Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .

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 .

EI 's Lovers' Vows, adapted from (and toned down from) Das Kind der Liebe by Kotzebue , opened at Covent Garden . Inchbald, who did not speak German, worked from an intermediate literal version...

Another adaptation from Kotzebue by EI , The Wise Man of the East, was performed at Covent Garden ; before the end of the year it was published by Robinsons .

A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .

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...

Such Things Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

EI 's five-act comedy All on a Summer's Day had its first production, at Covent Garden .

Actor Charles Kemble , father of Fanny and AK , took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble in Covent Garden Theatre . Within a couple of years he took on the major...

AK made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre , London, again singing the title role in Bellini 's Norma.

AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London.

The Paine book was Rights of Man. The kangaroo was the first ever brought to England. In the Polygraphic Exhibition Joseph Booth was displaying mechanical reproductions of oil paintings at Schomberg House, Pall Mall...

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...

In her prefatory essay ML expresses little enthusiasm for the life of an author. She sees writing for bread as an extreme of slavery, especially for a woman, and says she would much rather...