Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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, 1999, pp. 1-34. 5
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, 1990.
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, 2000, p. ix - lii. xlviii
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	Susanna Centlivre	Drury Lane put on a farce or opening piece by SC entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders. Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 217 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 133
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, 1999, pp. 1-34. 11
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, 1997. 336-7 It was...
Performance of text	Mary Robinson	MR 's comic opera The Lucky Escape opened at Drury Lane , given for her benefit at its first appearance. Pascoe differs from the London Stage and from Mann and Garnier as to the exact date. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64. 59 Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 397 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 167
Performance of text	Marianne Chambers	MC 's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's Drury Lane . James Mason published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 383
Performance of text	Mary Berry	MB 's comedy The Fashionable Friends reached the public stage at Drury Lane Theatre , after a private performance at Strawberry Hill (November 1801). It ran for three nights, just enough to achieve a benefit...
Performance of text	Mary Robinson	MR 's afterpiece or satiric comedy Nobody opened at Drury Lane , with prologue and epilogue by herself. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xiii The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 1707
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, 1996. 383 Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols. 3: 73n5
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 1928
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, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxx 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, 1991, pp. 120-42. 126
Performance of text	Elizabeth Griffith	EG 's comedy The School for Rakes opened at Drury Lane ; it was adapted from Eugénie by P. A. Caron de Beaumarchais , and had a highly satisfactory run. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxx-xxxi

Timeline

14 November 1874

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

Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.

347

Hawkins-Dady, Mark et al., editors. International Dictionary of Theatre. St James Press, 1992–1996, 3 vols.

I: 735

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.

Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.

Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.

101

Ziegler, Philip. London at War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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