Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

EG 's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at Covent Garden Theatre , only to be damned for Edward Shuter 's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage).

MS 's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at Covent Garden ; it was printed with her name that year.

After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...

Rich had accepted the play for Covent Garden and encouraged ML to train further as a dramatist. She here ascribes good intentions to Rich, but sharp practice to the present Managers, their Adherents, and Dependants...

Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre visited AMP to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him.

Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...

In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Baillie...

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.

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...

EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .

Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.

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 .

Another play by BBBD , called Isaure and having as protagonist a refined patrician beauty, was intended to be performed at Covent Garden as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble , but it...

A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .

JP 's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean 's revival of The Jew of Malta...