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Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
's tragedy Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, dedicated to Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. It was published before the end of the month. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 2, 1018 Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 312 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cooper | As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane
, and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre |
Performance of text | Charlotte Charke | CC
's farceThe Carnival; or, Harlequin Blunderer played for her benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. She was entitled to a benefit night each season (as was every member of the company), when she... |
Performance of text | Mary Davys | MD
's one play to reach the stage, The Northern Heiress; or, the Humours of York, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
in London. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix. xviii |
Performance of text | Jane Wiseman | JW
's Antiochus the Great; or, The Fatal Relapse. A Tragedy was published; it had recently opened on stage at Lincoln's Inn Fields
in London. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 17 Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 402 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve
's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Performance of text | Jane Robe | Late in the season, JR
's tragedy (and only known work) The Fatal Legacy, translated from La Thébaïde by Jean Racine
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
; it ran just three nights. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 397 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Polwhele | EP
wrote her first surviving play, The Faithful Virgins, a rhyming tragedy, which was apparently performed by the Duke's Company
at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. It has been dated June 1663, but editors Milhous |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | MP
's The Deceiver Deceived opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 1: 488-9 |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | It had played at Lincoln's Inn Fields
about a month previously, with a prologue and epilogue by Peter Motteux
(which refer to the hampering of the playwright by the movement for the reformation of the... |
Performance of text | Ariadne | The Actors' Company
at Lincoln's Inn Fields
, London, opened their first full season (which, remarkably, featured five new plays by women) with She Ventures, and He Wins, a singularly good-humoured comedy by Ariadne
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 1: 452 |
Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | EH
's The Fair Captive, a harem tragedy (which recasts a play by a Captain Hurst
), opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre; it was published the same month, and went to a second issue. 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, 1973–1993. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 107-10 |
Performance of text | Ariadne | Lincoln's Inn Fields
, London, saw the opening of a comedy entitled The Unnatural Mother; since the author was a Young Lady it has been ascribed to Ariadne
. 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. 29-30 |
Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | DM
's The Royal Mischief, A Tragedy was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields
; it was printed the same year. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 393 Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. xii |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom (her first play to be staged) had a performance at Lincoln's Inn Fields
which was probably its opening. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. |
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