Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Textual Production Mary Latter
Three months after the death of John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden Theatre , ML finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.
The...
Friends, Associates Mary Latter
ML formed a friendship and patronage relation with John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden , when he made a visit to Reading, on which occasion he lent her five guineas within half an hour...
Travel Mary Latter
Theatre manager John Rich enabled ML to make a ten-week visit to London, staying at his house near Covent Garden Theatre . She was back there again for a second, shorter visit at the...
Textual Production Mary Latter
This play by ML is distantly related to Tasso 's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft...
Leisure and Society Anna Margaretta Larpent
The Paine book was Rights of Man. The kangaroo was the first ever brought to England. In the Polygraphic Exhibition Joseph Booth was displaying mechanical reproductions of oil paintings at Schomberg House, Pall Mall...
Family and Intimate relationships Adelaide Kemble
Actor Charles Kemble , father of Fanny and AK , took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble in Covent Garden Theatre . Within a couple of years he took on the major...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre , London, again singing the title role in Bellini 's Norma.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen.
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Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen.
606
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.
5: 1516-17
O’Quinn, Daniel. “Bread: The Eruption and Interruption of Politics in Elizabeth Inchbald’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Every One Has His Fault</span&gt”;. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 149-57.
O'Quinn 149
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 5 (1805): 333
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's The Midnight Hour, translated from Guerre ouverte, by Antoine-Jean Bourlin (better known as Dumaniant), was published after a production at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
64 (1787): 479
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
192
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 28 (1800): 69
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
60 (1785): 393
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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