| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
| Publishing | Mary Davys | Something occurred to make Drury Lane
reject MD
's next play, The Self-Rival, which it should have qtd. in 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, 1999, p. ix - xlix. xlviii 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, 1999, p. ix - xlix. xlviii |
| Publishing | Harriette Wilson | She wrote a farce which she submitted to Robert Elliston
, manager of Drury Lane
(and an old friend who later proposed marriage to her). But he did not accept her play. In 1829 (after... |
| Reception | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the... |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick
and John Rich
had rejected this tragedy for the stage. The play had been in competition with one of the... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni
), opened at Drury Lane
. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxxii |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
adapted The Travellers; or, Prince of China: An interesting story from an opera, The Travellers, with music by Domenico Corri
and libretto by Andrew Cherry
, which had opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane |
| Textual Production | Robert Browning | RB
's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
with Helen Faucit
playing Mildred. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. 64 |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
wrote several plays. She had already refused one invitation to write for Drury Lane
when in March 1816 she met and was impressed by both Edmund Kean
and his wife, Mary
. Mary described... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
's confusing preface to her translated melodrama The Wife with Two Husbands, 1803, says she is printing it because she has heard that Drury Lane
is about to put on her first essay... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published, again with Tabart
, The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 12 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 153n2 |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 254 Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 406 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 1: 455 |
| 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... |
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