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.
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Penelope Aubin | A Mrs Aubin, probably PA
, received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden
's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. |
Performance of text | Ariadne | The Actors' Company
at Lincoln's Inn Fields
, London, opened their first full season (which, remarkably, featured five new plays by women) with She Ventures, and He Wins, a singularly good-humoured comedy by Ariadne
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 452 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Polwhele | EP
wrote her first surviving play, The Faithful Virgins, a rhyming tragedy, which was apparently performed by the Duke's Company
at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. It has been dated June 1663, but editors Milhous |
Performance of text | Ariadne | Lincoln's Inn Fields
, London, saw the opening of a comedy entitled The Unnatural Mother; since the author was a Young Lady it has been ascribed to Ariadne
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. 29-30 |
Performance of text | Jane Robe | Late in the season, JR
's tragedy (and only known work) The Fatal Legacy, translated from La Thébaïde by Jean Racine
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
; it ran just three nights. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 397 |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve
's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom (her first play to be staged) had a performance at Lincoln's Inn Fields
which was probably its opening. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Jane Wiseman | JW
's Antiochus the Great; or, The Fatal Relapse. A Tragedy was published; it had recently opened on stage at Lincoln's Inn Fields
in London. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 17 Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 402 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Amorous Prince; or, The Curious Husband opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's third play, a comedy entitled The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 47 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
scored her first major success, with her comedy The Gamester, which opened anonymously at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. Opening date went unrecorded. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 88 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 88 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 58 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | A Bold Stroke for a Wife, another famous comedy by SC
(and her penultimate play), opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 481 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 212 |
Performance of text | Charlotte Charke | CC
's farceThe Carnival; or, Harlequin Blunderer played for her benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. She was entitled to a benefit night each season (as was every member of the company), when she... |
Performance of text | Mary Davys | MD
's one play to reach the stage, The Northern Heiress; or, the Humours of York, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
in London. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xviii |
Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | EH
's The Fair Captive, a harem tragedy (which recasts a play by a Captain Hurst
), opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre; it was published the same month, and went to a second issue. 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. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 107-10 |
Timeline
After 7 April 1668: On the death of Sir William Davenant, his...
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After 7 April 1668
On the death of Sir William Davenant
, his widow
took over the running of Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatre; she managed it until the 1670s, and therefore presided over the debut of Aphra Behn
.
: Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas...
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Autumn1694
Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas Betterton
, Elizabeth Barry
, and Anne Bracegirdle
put an end to the United Company
, which had been formed in 1682 with the merger of the two London theatres.
30 April 1695: Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne...
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30 April 1695
Thomas Betterton
, Elizabeth Barry
, and Anne Bracegirdle
gave the first performance of their breakaway Actors' Company
, premiering Congreve
's Love for Love.
Probably 5 March 1700: William Congreve's last play, the comedy...
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Probably 5 March 1700
1 June 1704: The habit of ladies' attending the theatre...
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1 June 1704
The habit of ladies' attending the theatre in masks was satirised in a song performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
.
9 April 1705: Vanbrugh's new Haymarket Theatre (at this...
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9 April 1705
Vanbrugh
's new Haymarket Theatre
(at this date also known as both the Queen's Theatre
and as the Opera House) opened with an anonymous Italian opera.
18 December 1714: A new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built...
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18 December 1714
29 January 1728: John Gay's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's...
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29 January 1728
25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...
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25 February 1729
The Haymarket Theatre
, hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
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