The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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George Colman
Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Henrietta Battier | She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson
offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been... |
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Carter | She printed this with her father's approval and support; he suggested, as scholar Gwen Hampshire
has pointed out, that she should print about three dozen copies. When George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
included EC
in... |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's second full-length play, the tragedy Albina, Countess Raimond, opened at the summer Haymarket Theatre
(managed by George Colman
), which did not usually perform tragedy. Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, p. v - xlxx. xvi Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
| 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>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87 |
| 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... |
| Employer | Sarah Gardner | Her regular Haymarket engagement ended the first summer after George Colman
took over from Foote, when Colman first accepted her own play The Matrimonial Advertisement, then botched its staging and blamed her for its... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Sarah Gardner | SG
appeared at the Haymarket Theatre
in a play called The Female Dramatist, by her old adversary George Colman
. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 7 , pp. 7-25. 15 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 537 |
| 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. 28 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
's farce Young Men and Old Women, an unpublished adaptation from French, was performed on stage as afterpiece to George Colman the elder
's The Suicide. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1465 |
Timeline
31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...
Writing climate item
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...
Women writers item
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.