Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Sophia Lee
SL 's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane , after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii
Performance of text Marianne Chambers
MC 's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum in London with actors from the Theatre Royal .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
383
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press.
3: 73n5
Performance of text Catherine Gore
CG 's second comedy, Lords and Commons, opened at the patent theatre of Drury Lane , almost within five months of her first.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
5
Performance of text Sophia Lee
SL 's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane .
It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble in 1774.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xlviii
Performance of text Anne Plumptre
AP was paid £25 for the use by Sheridan and the Drury Lane Theatre of her translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 2178
Performance of text Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie 's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre , London, on 29 April 1800.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
331
The duchess said...
Performance of text Catherine Gore
CG , still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane , featuring the French monarch Henri IV .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
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Performance of text Jane Porter
JP 's tragedy Switzerland (which has been sometimes wrongly attributed to her sister Anna Maria ), was performed at Drury Lane , only to be summarily withdrawn after its single, disastrous performance.
Archival evidence is...
Performance of text Charlotte Charke
CC 's topical farceThe Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd, a satire on Fleetwood and other Drury Lane personnel, played at York Buildings .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
3: 513
Performance of text Charlotte Lennox
CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1928
Performance of text Frances Sheridan
FS 's first play, the comedy The Discovery (which had been in rehearsal the previous November), opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 976
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
xiv
Performance of text Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven (later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedy The Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane , with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and...
Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy The Platonic Wife (based on one of Marmontel 's tales, L'heureux divorce) opened at Drury Lane .
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/.
Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42.
126
Performance of text Frances Burney
FB 's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane , starring Sarah Siddons .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Performance of text Frances Sheridan
FS 's second comedy, The Dupe (called by editor Joyce Coates Cleary an interesting cross between a farce and a morality play), opened at Drury Lane ; but it flopped.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1025
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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14 November 1874

Dion Boucicault 's The Shaughraun opened at Wallack's Theatre in New York.

1940: Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the...

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1940

Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the Entertainments National Service Association (generally known as ENSA) to boost the morale of factory workers, allied servicemen, and civilians in underground air-raid shelters.

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