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.
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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
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
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
Wealth and Poverty
Penelope Aubin
A Mrs Aubin, probably PA
, received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden
's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields
.
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.