Court Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
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.
By early 1897 HJ transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...
Author summary Elizabeth Baker
Elizabeth Baker 's drama often deals with feminist and economic issues facing struggling middle-class families. Her casts of characters include feisty, independent young women seeking emancipation and sympathetic men burdened with supporting a family on...
Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
Two years later, on 30 March 1927, it was performed at London's Court Theatre . It was published by Ernest Benn in 1927.
Performance of text W. B. Yeats
Where There Is Nothing, a play by WBY , opened at London's Court Theatre .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
10
Performance of text Inez Bensusan
IB 's first play, a one-act suffrage drama entitled The Apple, had one matinee performance by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre in London.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
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Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
508
Performance of text John Galsworthy
JG 's first play, The Silver Box, a critique of bias favoring the rich in the judicial process, opened at the Court Theatre in London.The play was published in 1910.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Performance of text Augusta Gregory
AG 's comedy The Bogie Men was first performed by the Abbey Theatre Company at the Court Theatre in London.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
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Performance of text Augusta Gregory
The Wrens, a political comedy by AG , had its first production at London's Court Theatre .
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Performance of text Augusta Gregory
One source of inspiration for this play was the 1887-88 imprisonment of AG 's close friend, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , for protesting against the eviction of tenants during the Land War.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
537, 547
The play...
Performance of text Edith Lyttelton
St. Ursula's Pilgrimage: A Miracle Play in Five Shewings by EL , was produced by Mrs Patrick Campbell at the Court Theatre in London, with a cast featuring several prominent members of society.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
797
Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
EB 's first play, Chains, had a single matinée performance at the Court Theatre in London.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
315
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
490
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
John Bull's Other Island, a play about Ireland written by GBS at the request of W. B. Yeats , opened at the Court Theatre in London.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
xxiv
Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
Two one-act plays by EB , Cupid in Clapham and Miss Tassey, were produced at the Court Theatre in London.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
315
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
490
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
The Court Theatre presented Major Barbara, a three-act comedy by GBS in which he pits the ethos of the Salvation Army against modern industrialism.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
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Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
EB 's Partnership, a three-act comedy about business and marriage, opened at the Court Theatre in London.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
315
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Timeline

Autumn 1904 to summer 1907: Under the management of playwright and director...

Writing climate item

Autumn 1904 to summer 1907

Under the management of playwright and director Harley Granville-Barker and business manager J. E. Vedrenne , the Court Theatre became the first permanent home of the new drama.

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