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Occupation | David Garrick | Riots at Drury Lane
greeted Garrick
's attempts at price reform. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947, 974 |
Occupation | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | In June 1776, the year after his first comedy had snatched success from the jaws of defeat, RBS
added to the career of a dramatist the position of joint manager of Drury Lane Theatre
... |
Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick
succeeded in a reform which put an end to on-stage audience seating at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947, 979 |
Occupation | Sir Richard Steele | Richard Steele
was appointed governor of Drury Lane Theatre
. He was suspended from this position in 1720 and restored to it the following year. Steele, Sir Richard. The Tender Husband. Editor Winton, Calhoun, Edward Arnold. 87-8 |
Occupation | David Garrick | The Drury Lane
theatre audience demonstrated its consumer power by compelling Garrick
to alter the regular opening time. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1347, 1356 |
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. |
Occupation | Frances Eleanor Trollope | During the 1850s the Ternan women acted in London, at theatres such as Drury Lane
, the Princess's Theatre
, and Sadler's Wells
. Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 787 |
Occupation | David Garrick | Drury Lane Theatre
was left in parlous condition at the retirement of David Garrick
; the next manager to make his mark on it was Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, who now became joint-manager with three others. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 5-6 |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond
's, and later at Strawberry Hill. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 97 |
Occupation | David Garrick | |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | The posters, she later wrote, made her nice pocket-money. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph. 108 |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | Colley Cibber
retired abruptly from managing Drury Lane
, passing it not to his son Theophilus
but to John Highmore
; Theophilus, CC
, and other performers defected to the illicit Little Theatre in the Haymarket
. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 18 Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber. 52-3 |
Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | Charlotte Ramsay (later CL
) first appeared on stage in London: at Drury Lane
, as Lavinia in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 1214 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne
raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane
on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after... |
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