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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | Of the twenty-eight plays that JB
wrote, only seven were professionally produced. These were De Monfort,The Family Legend, Henriquez, The Separation, The Election, Constantine Paleologus, and Basil... |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | FB
's tragedy The Siege of Sinope opened at Covent Garden
; it played for ten nights—a gratifyingly long run. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381 |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | FB
's first musical, Rosina, set to music by William Shields
, opened at Covent Garden
. Mary Robinson
performed in the mainpiece at Covent Garden that night; but if she was in Rosina... |
Performance of text | Frances Brooke | Marian, FB
's second musical, also set by Shields
, began an excellent run (though less phenomenal than Rosina's) at Covent Garden
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381 |
Performance of text | Robert Browning | RB
's tragedy in blank verse entitled Strafford was first performed at Covent Garden
; it was published the same year. Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill. 74-5 The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Leisure and Society | Mary Brunton | As tourists MB
and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended... |
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... |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | Thomas Harris
, manager of Covent Garden Theatre
, informed FB
's brother Charles
that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering. 1: 105 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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