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...
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...
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
...
