The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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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 |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | HC
soon became a woman of the theatre. She wrote prologues and epilogues for others, and contributed a scene to Charles Dibdin
's pantomime The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller, which opened at Covent Garden |
Publishing | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre
box for her family from Charles James Mathews
and his wife... |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | During the 1990s RF
wrote three opera libretti. First, composer Erika Fox
, commissioned by Covent Garden Opera House
for their series The Garden Venture, invited Fainlight to provide a chamber opera libretto, and... |
Textual Production | Susan Ferrier | Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism! Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne. 68 |
Performance of text | E. M. Forster | Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten
's opera based on Herman Melville
's novel, with libretto by EMF
and Eric Crozier
, opened at the Royal Opera House
, Covent Garden, London. Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 216 Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon. 60 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Gardner | The young actress Sarah Cheney
married William Gardner
, a journeyman actor at Covent Garden
. 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. |
Occupation | Sarah Gardner | During this time, having changed theatres from Drury Lane, where she had made her debut, she appeared during the winter seasons with her husband's employers at Covent Garden
, but in her initial year there... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG
once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble
, in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes, without naming names, her friendship with a German singer of Wagnerian roles, first met when he sang Tristan at Covent Garden
in 1923. She met him nine years later in New York, found... |
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 |
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