Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy The Double Mistake opened at Covent Garden Theatre : in contrast to her first effort it ran well, bringing her several benefits and a royal command performance.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Mariana Starke
MS 's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at Covent Garden ; it was printed with her name that year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1250-1
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at Covent Garden Theatre , only to be damned for Edward Shuter 's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage).
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1567
Occupation Leah Sumbel
She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay
Occupation David Garrick
Garrick proposed to charge full price, instead of half, for arrivals after the third act. Riots followed at Covent Garden (the other licensed theatre) the next month.
Occupation David Garrick
Covent Garden imitated Drury Lane one month later.
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre , London, again singing the title role in Bellini 's Norma.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen.
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Occupation Mary Robinson
MR , under a heavy cloak of anonymity, opened her last theatre season, at Covent Garden Theatre (playing in the mainpiece but apparently not in Frances Brooke 's Rosina, which followed it).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen.
606
Occupation Mary Robinson
MR made her last known London stage appearance, as Victoria in Hannah Cowley 's Bold Stroke for a Husband at Covent Garden .
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
13: 35
Literary responses Mary Latter
John Stede , the Covent Garden Theatre prompter, in his judgement later printed by the indignant author, said the play was of a preposterous Length, with many over-long speeches. It was a mere collection of...
Leisure and Society Frances Trollope
While the siblings were neither connected to the upper ranks of society, nor dining with figures such as Beau Brummel , Frances soon exhibited the wit favoured by dandies and other members of the monied...
Leisure and Society Anna Margaretta Larpent
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Latter
ML formed a friendship and patronage relation with John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden , when he made a visit to Reading, on which occasion he lent her five guineas within half an hour...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
EF arranged for her daughter Eliza Anne to give lessons in the Mocatta household in drawing and singing.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press.
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Eliza Anne had already embarked on an acting career. She was performing in private theatres in...

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