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.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Glover | Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG
enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Thomas Dibdin
used a translation from La Fontaine by MC
as the basis of a comedy, Guilty or Not Guilty, which opened at the Haymarket
in... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
, as Mrs William Gooch, acted during the off-season at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. 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. 6: 249 |
Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens
's Amateur Company
opened at the Haymarket Theatre
, with MCC
as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 136-7 |
Performance of text | Dodie Smith | DS
's critically acclaimed play Touch Wood—the first to be produced under her real name—opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996. 218 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 89, 92 |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Vedrenne
and Barker
first presented Getting Married, GBS
's discussion play critiquing Britain's marriage laws, at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
Performance of text | Emma Robinson | The play's cover (still purporting to be by a young Oxonian) bore the words: The Prohibited Comedy. Its title continued: an historical comedy in five acts: qtd. in OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Performance of text | George Paston | The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton
's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan
on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League
and the Women Writers' Suffrage League |
Performance of text | George Paston | GP
also translated a German one-act play by Ludwig Huna
, The Kiss, first performed at the Haymarket Theatre
on 24 November 1910, and a full-length Russian play by Nikolai Evreinov
and Fernand Nozière |
Performance of text | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
's stage adaptation of her earlier novel Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) premiered at the Haymarket Theatre
as Priscilla Runs Away. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 115, 145, 152 |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 192 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's first comedy, The School for Coquettes, opened a long run (thirty-seven performances) at the recently opened Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 3 Athenæum. J. Lection. 194 (1831): 460 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's new play, The Queen's Champion, opened as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
: it was translated from a French vaudeville entertainment. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 7 Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999. 158 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's The Maid of Croissey; or, Theresa's Vow, a village melodrama adapted from French, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 13-14 |
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