Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Performance of text Eglinton Wallace
EW 's second comedy, The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion, opened at Covent Garden the season after her first. It was printed, without revision, by May the same year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
404
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham, 1788.
iv
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
Such Things Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 952
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's five-act comedy All on a Summer's Day had its first production, at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1027
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
Every One Has His Fault, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden , after being postponed for a week for fear of coinciding with the guillotining of Louis XVI of France .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1516-17
OQuinn, Daniel. “Bread: The Eruption and Interruption of Politics in Elizabeth Inchbalds Every One Has His FaultEuropean Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 2, Apr. 2007, pp. 149-57.
O'Quinn 149
Performance of text Mariana Starke
MS 's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at Covent Garden ; it was printed with her name that year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1250-1
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage 's Man...
Performance of text Hannah More
HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 133
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's Lovers' Vows, adapted from (and toned down from) Das Kind der Liebe by Kotzebue , opened at Covent Garden . Inchbald, who did not speak German, worked from an intermediate literal version...
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
Another adaptation from Kotzebue by EI , The Wise Man of the East, was performed at Covent Garden ; before the end of the year it was published by Robinsons .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 28 (1800): 69
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Performance of text Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
EMA resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn1792.
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
lxxxvi
In 1794 EMA performed The Yorkshire Ghost—which does not...
Performance of text Anna Maria Porter
AMP 's musical drama The Fair Fugitives suffered an unsuccessful performance at Covent Garden . This piece was The Runaways re-written, rather than a new effort.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
259
Performance of text Joanna Baillie
The Separation. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, by JB , was first staged at Covent Garden , London.
This play does not appear to have been published.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
159
Performance of text Anne Plumptre
The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue translated by AP , opened at Covent Garden : this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 2160
Performance of text Eliza Parsons
EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1447
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Performance of text Elizabeth Cooper
Elizabeth Cooper 's comedy The Rival Widows; or, Fair Libertine opened at Covent Garden , where it ran for long enough to give her the profits of two benefit nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 463, 464, 466

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