Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
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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, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | De Monfort, JB
's tragedy about hatred, one of her first Plays on the Passions, had its opening at Drury Lane Theatre
, London. Library catalogues also list this play as De Montfort. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 110 |
Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | Henriquez, by JB
, was first staged at Drury Lane
, London. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 164 |
Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | Of the twenty-eight plays that JB
wrote, only seven were professionally produced. These were De Monfort,The Family Legend, Henriquez, The Separation, The Election, Constantine Paleologus, and Basil... |
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 Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Performance of text | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | A five-act tragedy by Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
, Ina, set in Anglo-Saxon England, ran for a single night at Drury Lane Theatre
in London. 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. |
Author summary | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her... |
Occupation | Henrietta Battier | HB
acted at Drury Lane Theatre
in the role of Lady Rachel Russell
in Thomas Stratford
's tragedy on the death of Lord Russell
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | There opened at Drury Lane Theatre
a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble
, which was adapted from AB
's The Rover. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1233 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 69 (1790): 593 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Luckey Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain was licensed; it had probably already opened at Drury Lane
with the new United Company
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane
which may have been... |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | Charles Gildon
had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne
's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 336-7 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 69, 70 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Boyd | The British Library
copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood
(prompter at Drury Lane
) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again... |
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