Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | DM
's Lost Lover was produced at Drury Lane
; it was published the same year. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. xi Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 393 |
| 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, only to be summarily withdrawn after its single, disastrous performance.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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 513 |
| Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | DM
's tragedy Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain, was acted at Drury Lane
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 393 |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven
(later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedyThe Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane
, with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and... |
| Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's tragedy Rienzi opened at Drury Lane Theatre
; it ran for thirty-four nights, making her reputation as a dramatist. Sullivan dates the opening 11 October, but MRM
herself, as edited by L'Estrange, suggests... |
| 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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. |
| Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | EH
's comedy A Wife to be Lett opened at Drury Lane. Haywood took the leading comic role of Mrs Graspall (owing to someone else's illness), and also spoke an epilogue. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 128 |
| 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. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970. 110 |
| Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | CT
's only comedy, the didactic Love at a Loss; or, Most Votes Carry It, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 256 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 5 |
| 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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 2178 |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Frances Sheridan | She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire
's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a... |
| 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 |
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