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Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket

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Occupation	Maria Theresa Kemble	Maria De Camp (later MTK ) began her long stage career playing the role of Cupid in Les Ruses de l'Amour at the King's Theatre . Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 322 Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan. 443
Material Conditions of Writing	Isabel Hill	In the same year as My Own Twin Brother, 1834, IH 's West Country Wooing, a monodrama which she composed over the course of two summer evenings, was staged in the first of...
Leisure and Society	Elinor Glyn	EG appeared on stage in a tableau vivant, one of a series designed by a socialite named Lady Arthur Paget (Minnie) and directed by Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre . EG 's grandson biographer,...
Performance of text	Emmuska, Baroness Orczy	Having begun with The Scarlet Pimpernel as both play and novel, EBO wrote a number of further plays, including the eighteenth-century highwayman story Beau Brocade (produced at the Queen's Theatre under Frank Curzon , Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson. 109
Performance of text	Elizabeth De la Pasture	Elizabeth De la Pasture 's one-act play The Unlucky Family (based on her children's book of the same title) was first performed in a matinée at His Majesty's Theatre , London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 604
Performance of text	Clemence Dane	CD 's stage adaptation of Max Beerbohm 's The Happy Hypocrite was first performed at His Majesty's Theatre , London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133
Occupation	Clemence Dane	She got her first chance in Eliza Comes to Stay (by H. V. Esmond ) at the Criterion when the actress due to play the other woman had to drop out because of illness, and...
Occupation	William Congreve	Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press. title-page He moved quickly into...
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's comedy The Platonick Lady opened at the Haymarket . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 132 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 83
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's next comedy, The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to Do about Her, opened at the Haymarket . Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 117
Occupation	Frances Brooke	The Haymarket Opera House was bought for FB and her actress friend Mary Ann Yates to run as joint managers. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 151 Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 260
Occupation	Frances Brooke	FB and Mary Ann Yates launched their first opera season at the Haymarket Opera House . Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlix
Occupation	Frances Brooke	FB and Mary Ann Yates ended their reign as managers of the Haymarket Opera House . Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlix
Occupation	Hannah Brand	HB acted the female lead in her own tragedy Huniades at the King's Theatre in London: this was billed as her first stage appearance, ignoring the earlier one at Norwich. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381
Occupation	Hannah Brand	HB took the female lead again in her hastily-revised tragedy Agmunda (its title changed from Huniades, the name of the male lead, to the name of the heroine), at the King's Theatre in London. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 381

Timeline

13 November 1858

Lady Clara Cavendish 's melodrama The Woman of the World premiered at Queen's Theatre .

26 December 1867

Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...

31 January 1880

Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, was reopened by Marie Wilton and her husband Squire Bancroft after extensive restructuring.

1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

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