Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
1: 124 and n3
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Norton | The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre
on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN
's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. 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. |
| Textual Production | Marianne Chambers | The same year it played at the Theatre Royal
itself, and also reached print. |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
wrote several plays. She had already refused one invitation to write for Drury Lane
when in March 1816 she met and was impressed by both Edmund Kean
and his wife, Mary
. Mary described... |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick
and John Rich
had rejected this tragedy for the stage. The play had been in competition with one of the... |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane
in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean
's revival of The Jew of Malta... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published, again with Tabart
, The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 12 |
| Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | Many of CG
's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was... |
| Textual Production | Robert Browning | RB
's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
with Helen Faucit
playing Mildred. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 64 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
| Textual Production | Frances Burney | After the triumph of Evelina, FB
's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and of dramatist Arthur Murphy
. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering. 1: xviii, 3 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni
), 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. xxxii |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
's confusing preface to her translated melodrama The Wife with Two Husbands, 1803, says she is printing it because she has heard that Drury Lane
is about to put on her first essay... |
| Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Timeline
7 December 1666: This was probably the first day a public...
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7 December 1666
This was probably the first day a public theatre opened in London after a seventeen-month closure owing to the plague.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
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2 March 1667
Dryden
's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen had its first performance at Drury Lane Theatre
, with Nell Gwyn
in the cast and Samuel Pepys
, Charles II
, and the future James II
in the audience.
26 March 1674: The King's Company opened at its new Drury...
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26 March 1674
The King's Company
opened at its new Drury Lane Theatre
, in Drury Lane, still under the management of Thomas Killigrew
.
9 September 1676: Charles Hart, Michael Mohun, Edward Kynaston,...
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9 September 1676
Charles Hart
, Michael Mohun
, Edward Kynaston
, and William Cartwright
were appointed by the Lord Chamberlain to manage Drury Lane Theatre
.
28 September 1677: During another difficult season at Drury...
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28 September 1677
During another difficult season at Drury Lane Theatre
, the manager extracted an agreement from the actors that they would not perform for any other company.
12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...
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12 December 1677
John Dryden
's tragedyAll for Love; or, The World Well Lost (a blank-verse re-writing of Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra) received its first known (perhaps not its first) performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
.
16 November 1682: The recently-formed United Company gave its...
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16 November 1682
The recently-formed United Company
gave its first stage performance at Drury Lane Theatre
.
Mid-January 1694: John Dryden's last play, the tragedy Love...
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Mid-January 1694
John Dryden
's last play, the tragedyLove Triumphant, was performed at Drury Lane
; it was printed the same year.
: Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas...
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Autumn1694
Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas Betterton
, Elizabeth Barry
, and Anne Bracegirdle
put an end to the United Company
, which had been formed in 1682 with the merger of the two London theatres.
21 November 1696: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Relapse: or...
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21 November 1696
8 April 1706: George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer...
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8 April 1706
13 January 1708: The two licensed London theatre companies...
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13 January 1708
The two licensed London theatre companies struck an agreement which would put an end to some aspects of recent cut-throat competition.
6 June 1709: Drury Lane Theatre (under Christopher Rich)...
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6 June 1709
Drury Lane Theatre
(under Christopher Rich
) was closed by the Lord Chamberlain for deducting too much in house charges from the full receipts.
23 November 1709: Aaron Hill started as manager at Drury Lane...
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23 November 1709
Aaron Hill
started as manager at Drury Lane Theatre
and pursued a policy of rivalry with Thomas Betterton
's company at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket
.
1715: The theatre censorship system which had been...
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1715
The theatre censorship system which had been in place since the 1690s died out when Drury Lane
under Richard Steele
ceased sending playscripts to Killigrew
.
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