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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Performance of text Hannah More
HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text Eliza Parsons
EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1447
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Performance of text Anne Plumptre
The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue translated by AP , opened at Covent Garden : this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 2160
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...
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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Performance of text Anna Maria Porter
AMP 's musical drama The Fair Fugitives suffered an unsuccessful performance at Covent Garden . This piece was The Runaways re-written, rather than a new effort.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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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.
13: 35
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 582
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
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
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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

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