National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield.
George Lillo
Standard Name: Lillo, George
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT
wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | She also adapted works by Henry Fielding
and George Lillo
, and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele
and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford
. |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Her abridgement The Pathetic and Interesting History of George Barnwell. Founded on Facts, published in 1804 and billed as adapting a novel by Thomas Skinner Surr
, derives originally from George Lillo
's immensely... |
Textual Production | Sophia King | The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare
's Macbeth and from Lillo
. According to the commonly-accepted view of SK
's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this... |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 402ff |
Occupation | Eliza Haywood | In 1730 she acted in Hatchett's The Rival Father and perhaps as Mrs Novel (a character apparently based on herself) in Fielding's The Author's Farce. On 2 March 1732 she played in The Blazing... |
Literary responses | Ann Gomersall | Again the Critical Review enjoyed AG
's humour, if not her plotting. It supposed her to be influenced by George Lillo
's bourgeois tragedy The London Merchant (having in mind, no doubt, the vindication of... |
Timeline
25 June 1731: George Lillo's bourgeois tragedy The London...
Writing climate item
25 June 1731
George Lillo
's bourgeois tragedyThe London Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell had its debut at Drury Lane
, London.
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