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Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
had her first great hit when her comedy The Belle's Stratagem opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 319 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's next play, Modern Honour; or, The Sharper in High Life, opened at Covent Garden
, only to prove her first unequivocal flop. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 9 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | Another comedy by HC
, The World as it Goes; or, A Party at Montpelier, opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 411 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's next play, King O'Neil; or, The Irish Brigade, opened at Covent Garden
: a spectacular comedy-drama. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 15 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's comedy Which Is the Man? opened belatedly at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 496 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's historical drama Don Juan of Austria (adapted from Don Juan D'Autriche by Casimir Delavigne
) began a twelve-night run at Covent Garden
. Parts of this story overlap with Friedrich Schiller
's Don... |
Performance of text | Charlotte Lennox | CL
's comedy The Sister was disastrously staged at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1386 Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
scored another comedy hit with A Bold Stroke for a Husband when it opened at Covent Garden
. Her title had been used as a subtitle by Sarah Gardner
for her unpublished play The... |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
had another opening night at Covent Garden
: the comedy More Ways Than One. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 663-4 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's comedy A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride opened at Covent Garden
. Its subtitle, confusingly, is the same as the title of William Congreve
's only tragedy, The Mourning Bride, 1697. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 934 |
Performance of text | Isabel Hill | IH
's comedy The First of May was first performed, at Covent Garden Theatre
in London. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 184 |
Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's Julian (a five-act verse tragedy) had the first of its eight performances at Covent Garden
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 194 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's generically hybrid spectacular play with music or comic opera, A Day in Turkey; or, The Russian Slaves, opened at Covent Garden
to great acclaim. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1409 Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto. 1 |
Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's five-act verse tragedy Foscari had the first of its fifteen performances at Covent Garden
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's last play, the comedy The Town Before You, opened at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1709 |
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