Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Marianne Chambers | MC
's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum
in London with actors from the Theatre Royal
. Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3: 73n5 |
| Performance of text | Aphra Behn | Charles Gildon
had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne
's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 336-7 |
| Performance of text | Sophia Lee | SL
's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane
, after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii |
| 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. 5: 2178 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's second comedy, Lords and Commons, opened at the patent theatre of Drury Lane
, almost within five months of her first. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 5 |
| Performance of text | Sophia Lee | SL
's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane
. It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble
in 1774. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlviii |
| 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, only to be summarily withdrawn after its single, disastrous performance.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 | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie
's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons
when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre
, London, on 29 April 1800. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
, still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane
, featuring the French monarch Henri IV
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 11 |
| 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. 3: 513 |
| Performance of text | Charlotte Lennox | CL
's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson
and others) opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1928 |
| 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 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, 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, p. ix - xlix. xlviii |
| 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... |
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