George Colman

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. From this Richard Steele created Yarico on...

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...

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...

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 ...