OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Comedy Theatre
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Clotilde Graves | The most successful of CG
's stage works, A Mother of Three, a lively farce, was seen at the Comedy Theatre
in London; its leitmotif is the idea that men are unreliable. 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, 1990. |
Performance of text | May Edginton | These two worked together again on a play entitled Secrets. ME
's Times obituary says that this was produced in 1922 at the Comedy Theatre
, where it ran for 373 performances starring Fay Compton |
Performance of text | Lesley Storm | LS
enjoyed her first theatrical success when her three-act comedy Tony Draws a Horse opened at the Comedy Theatre
in London. It ran for 364 performances, lasting through the first few months of the... |
Textual Production | Pam Gems | Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre
. Samuel French
published the text in 1987. |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | DL
's three-act Play with a Tiger opened at the Comedy Theatre
in London. In June this year it became the second of her plays to reach print. Doris Lessing: A Retrospective. http://dorislessing.org/. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. 63 The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950. |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | FW
's one-act play Permanance, part of a collaborative multi-act play on married life, was produced in London at the Comedy Theatre
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 63: 440 |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | Busman's Honeymoon, a play co-authored by DLS
and Muriel St Clare Byrne
, opened at the Comedy Theatre
in London. It ran for nine months and was adapted as a novel by Sayers. Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research, 1989. 263 Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 267 |
Timeline
15 October 1881: The Royal Comedy Theatre was opened....
Building item
15 October 1881
The Royal Comedy Theatre
was opened.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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1 September 1894: Sydney Grundy's satire on intellectual and...
Writing climate item
1 September 1894
Sydney Grundy
's satire on intellectual and emancipated women, The New Woman, opened at the Comedy Theatre
in London; it was published the same year.
Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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