Princess's Theatre, London

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Mary Angela Dickens
MAD performed in The Silver King, a five-act melodrama whose run began on this day at the Princess's Theatre in Oxford Street, London.
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Jones
Employer Mary Angela Dickens
MAD performed in Claudian at the Princess's Theatre in Oxford Street, London.
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.
247
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Wills
Literary responses Isabella Neil Harwood
The initial performances earned praise from critics who maintained that it combined the best of poetry and drama, so that it excited by the action . . . the most exalted passions in our nature...
Occupation Frances Eleanor Trollope
During the 1850s the Ternan women acted in London, at theatres such as Drury Lane , the Princess's Theatre , and Sadler's Wells .
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990.
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Textual Production Isabella Neil Harwood
In the autumn of 1876, after Elfinella reached print, this company performed it in various towns on a provincial tour.
Ledger, Frederick, Edward Ledger, and W. Hamar Bass, editors. The Era.
1952 (20 February 1876)
It came to London on 6 June 1878 at the...

Timeline

May 1856
Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre , watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .
2 October 1862
Dion Boucicault wrote to The Times pointing out the widely varying rents for West End theatres.