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
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 488-9
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.