Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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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...
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
Such Things Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's five-act comedy All on a Summer's Day had its first production, at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text Felicia Hemans
FH 's The Vespers of Palermo was produced at London's Covent Garden theatre with Charles Kemble in the lead role; it was published the same year.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
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Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray.
Employer Elizabeth Griffith
EG became a member of the London stage community when she joined the Covent Garden theatre company.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 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.
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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...
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.
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...
Performance of text Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
EMA resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn 1792.
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii.
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In 1794 EMA performed The Yorkshire Ghost—which does...
Performance of text Elizabeth Cooper
Elizabeth Cooper 's comedy The Rival Widows; or, Fair Libertine opened at Covent Garden , where it ran for long enough to give her the profits of two benefit nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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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.
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was intended to be performed at Covent Garden as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble , but it...
Performance of text Joanna Baillie
The Separation. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, by JB , was first staged at Covent Garden , London.
This play does not appear to have been published.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books.
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