Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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 .

EG 's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni ), opened at Drury Lane .

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...

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.

It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...

Despite the volume's title, The Ruffian Boy had been in print well before this, and had spawned several theatrical incarnations. These included one based on the story, written by Edward Ball and produced at Norwich...

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...

In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Baillie...

Something occurred to make Drury Lane reject MD 's next play, The Self-Rival, which it should have performed. MD duly included it in her Works, 1725.

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...

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

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...

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...

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...

MTK performed the role of Lady Julia at Drury Lane in her second play, Personation; or, Fairly Taken In, a farce or comic interlude.