George Colman

Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general

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Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
This meant that she received the night's profits after the theatre covered its expenses: friends made a special effort to attend or to buy tickets for others. Johnson enlisted in the cause Elizabeth Carter ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Gardner
SG relates a classic story of blaming the victim, in which Colman , apparently unwilling to entertain the idea that one of his minor performers might have written something of value to him as well...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Haswell Rowson
In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out...
Textual Production Sarah Gardner
SG wrote and kept a detailed account of her dealings with George Colman over staging The Matrimonial Advertisement, which her manuscript sets out like a preface to a play in print, or like the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
Its full title was The Barber of Seville; or, The Useless Precaution, A Comedy in Four Acts. It was never performed, probably because of a rival translation by George Colman , as The Spanish...
Textual Production Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon 's History of Barbados, 1657.
Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span&gt”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 86-8.
87
From this Richard Steele created Yarico on...
Textual Production Frances Sheridan
In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35.
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It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
As EI developed her playwriting career, she took advantage of the competitive rivalry between Harris at Covent Garden and Colman at the Haymarket to have her plays produced, offering scripts to one, then the other...
Textual Features Catherine Gore
CG calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar , or George Colman school.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
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Her prologue makes the point that the rapidity of modern life, symbolised by the railway, leaves no time...
Textual Features Mariana Starke
In her preface MS makes fun of rumours that were circulating about her identity—that she was a grocer's daughter, or an adventuress, or a mother of six starving children. She concludes, however, that it is...
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
Steven Epley finds Eumea reminiscent of the native woman betrayed in Inkle and Yarico, and that the Irishman is used, like Trudge in Colman 's version of that story, to demonstrate the superiority of...
Reception Sarah Gardner
George Colman pursued his enmity against SG for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able...
Reception Mary Masters
MM 's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
25 (1755) 190-1
A selection was reprinted...
Publishing Sarah Gardner
SG submitted to George Colman , new manager of the Haymarket Theatre , her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband.
In her manuscript, SG uses The Matrimonial Advertisement...
Publishing Sophia Lee
SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...

Timeline

31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...

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31 January 1754-30 September 1756

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published their periodicalThe Connoisseur, under the pen name of Mr Town, critic and censor-general.

By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...

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By 22 May 1755

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.

By the end of 1755: Material from Bonnell Thornton's and George...

Women writers item

By the end of 1755

Material from Bonnell Thornton 's and George Colman 's prestigious anthology, Poems by Eminent Ladies, was recycled for a different market in A Select Collection of the Love Letters of several Eminent Persons, edited by G. Gaylove.

26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.

14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...

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14 October 1769

Garrick 's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane , where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.

16 January 1777: George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket...

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16 January 1777

George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket Theatre ; he subsequently authored more than thirty plays.

From 30 July 1778: George Colman's Bonduca (adapted from a play...

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From 30 July 1778

George Colman 's Bonduca (adapted from a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ) kept up the tradition of stage representations of this female national hero, better known as Boadicea.

2 September 1788: The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened...

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2 September 1788

The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened with George Colman 's Inkle and Yarico.

Texts

Colman, George, and Bonnell Thornton, editors. Poems by Eminent Ladies. R. Baldwin, 1755.
Colman, George, and Bonnell Thornton. The Connoisseur. Harrison, http://U of A Special Collections.