Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 490 |
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 | 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. 46 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 508 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
, aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre
; her mother, Ellen Terry
, and famous actor Henry Irving
played the leads. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 181-3 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 38 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 111 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
retired temporarily from the stage in 1897, disappointed at not having received the same recognition as other New Woman actresses (Elizabeth Robins
, for instance). Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 67 |
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. 10 “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. xi Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 237 |
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. xi |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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