Tydeman, William, and Steven Price. Wilde—Salome. Cambridge University Press.
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Performance of text | Oscar Wilde | The first performance was heard at Covent Garden
of the English opera written by Richard Strauss
to the text of OW
's Salome. Tydeman, William, and Steven Price. Wilde—Salome. Cambridge University Press. 185 |
Performance of text | Anne Burke | A play was put on at Covent Garden
entitled The Ward of the Castle and ascribed to Miss Burke. Several sources ascribe this to AB
, but she was a married woman, and would... |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
played Lady Elizabeth Freelove (opposite her husband
) in her comic interlude The Day After the Wedding; or, a Wife's First Lesson, at Covent Garden
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
made her London stage debut, at Covent Garden
; she played the breeches role of Bellario in Fletcher
's Philaster. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 23 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 376 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
performed in both winter and summer seasons, at Covent Garden and the Little Theatre, Haymarket
(under manager George Colman
). During the season 1780-1781, the Covent Garden
theatre paid her two pounds a week... |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
, not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre
debut as Shakespeare
's Juliet, saving her father
's company from bankruptcy. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 42-3 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre
company, met Walter Scott
, and was feted by Lady Morgan
in Dublin. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 54-6 |
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