David Garrick

A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...

David Garrick showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe long remembered the opening as delightful and...

The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical.CL later wrote that the work had been received with very general favour and was translated into German...

An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts...

She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue. It was published by...

Still in her teens, Mary Darby (later MR ) was praised by the actor Thomas Hull , and introduced to David Garrick and Arthur Murphy . Garrick decided to groom her as the Cordelia to...

The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire visited during the first...

From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS ) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in...

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .

HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .

HC 's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane , as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick 's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights.

Garrick declined to put this on stage at Drury Lane, citing a lack of dramatic spirit and interest. Published by Millar , it has a properly modest dedication, written by Johnson, to Lord Charlemont

EG 's painful experience with Colman ended with bad feeling on both sides. She pocketed her pride and tried again to ingratiate herself with David Garrick , but with no success. He rejected her draft...

FB 's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick and John Rich had rejected this tragedy for the stage.

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...