Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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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 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
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
CT 's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
254
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
406
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
1: 455
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.
256
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 5
Performance of text Catharine Trotter
CT 's fourth play and third verse tragedy, The Unhappy Penitent, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane . It bore her name as Mrs. Trotter.
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
257
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 7
Textual Production Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW adapted The Travellers; or, Prince of China: An interesting story from an opera, The Travellers, with music by Domenico Corri and libretto by Andrew Cherry , which had opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
1: 124 and n3
Publishing Harriette Wilson
She wrote a farce which she submitted to Robert Elliston , manager of Drury Lane (and an old friend who later proposed marriage to her). But he did not accept her play. In 1829 (after...
Publishing Ann Yearsley
As early as March-April 1788 AY 's backers Eliza Dawson and Wilmer Gossip were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at...
Textual Features Mary Julia Young
MJY 's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the...

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