New Theatre, Haymarket

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Performance of text Sarah Gardner
SG 's comedy The Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband had its single, disastrous performance at the Haymarket Theatre (the word Matrimonial was absent from the title on this occasion).
The manuscript for...
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
The Widow's Vow, an afterpiece adapted by EI , had its first performance, following Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore at the Haymarket Theatre : it was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 895
Performance of text Sophia Lee
SL 's first play, The Chapter of Accidents, a comedy, opened at the Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 355
Performance of text Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Among the later plays written in England as by Lady Craven, The Silver Tankard, or The Point at Portsmouth (Larpent MS 564, acted at the Haymarket on 18 July 1781) is a comic opera with...
Performance of text Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
EMA resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn1792.
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
lxxxvi
In 1794 EMA performed The Yorkshire Ghost—which does not...
Performance of text Christopher St John
The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko and CSJ of Nikolai Evreinov 's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Little Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
893
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
119
Performance of text Mariana Starke
MS 's first original play, The Sword of Peace; or, A Voyage of Love, a prose comedy in five acts, opened at the Haymarket Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1080
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
CH 's comedy Just to Get Married opened at the Little Theatre in London, directed by Gertrude Kingston .
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
192
Performance of text Elizabeth Cooper
Elizabeth Cooper 's second comedy, The Nobleman; or, The Family Quarrel, opened at the Haymarket Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 585
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's second full-length play, the tragedy Albina, Countess Raimond, opened at the summer Haymarket Theatre (managed by George Colman ), which did not usually perform tragedy.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 268
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx.
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Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
Performance of text Eliza Haywood
A ballad opera, The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great, by EH and her lover, William Hatchett , was performed at the Haymarket. It was published the same day and the...
Performance of text Eliza Haywood
Transactions of both EH and William Hatchett involving theatre tickets now make it seem certain that she was indeed the Author of an adaptation of the sixteenth-century tragedy Arden of Feversham (as Arden of Feversham...
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon (her first play to reach the stage) was produced at the Haymarket under the pseudonym Mrs Woodley.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 717
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
I'll Tell You What, a comedy by EI , opened in the Haymarket summer season and proved to be her second success.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 813
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Publishing Sophia Lee
SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...

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