Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Connections
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|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
, however, either instead of or as well as revising, then submitted her play elsewhere—to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
. There it seems to have been welcomed more unequivocally, but when sent to the... |
| Textual Production | Sir J. M. Barrie | SJMB
's fantasy play Mary Rose opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. In it a mother vanishes when her son is young and returns mysteriously unchanged to seek him after he has grown up. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
| Textual Production | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre
, Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree
's Henry Higgins. This... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Gore | This play was written in a bid to win a prize of £500 in a contest, sponsored by Benjamin Webster
of the Haymarket
, for the best modern comedy illustrative of British manners. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-74. 55 |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW
occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre
with one such woman... |
| Publishing | Isabel Hill | In the same year as My Own Twin Brother, 1834, IH
's West Country Wooing, a monodrama which she composed over the course of two summer evenings, was staged in the first of... |
| 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. 115, 145, 152 |
| 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 | 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. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 192 |
| 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: OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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. xxv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
| Performance of text | Catherine Crowe | A later romantic drama in five acts by CC
, The Cruel Kindness (dating from 1853), was performed at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| 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. 218 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 89, 92 |
| 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, 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, pp. 1-34. 7 Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland. 158 |
Timeline
9 April 1705: Vanbrugh's new Haymarket Theatre (at this...
Building item
9 April 1705
Vanbrugh
's new Haymarket Theatre
(at this date also known as both the Queen's Theatre
and as the Opera House) opened with an anonymous Italian opera.
29 December 1720: A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket,...
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29 December 1720
A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket
, opened with a company of French comedians providing the entertainment.
25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...
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25 February 1729
The Haymarket Theatre
, hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
23 September 1782: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...
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23 September 1782
Covent Garden Theatre
re-opened after a three-month reconstruction, enlargement, and renovation.
4 July 1821: The second Haymarket Theatre (that is not...
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4 July 1821
The second Haymarket Theatre
(that is not the New Theatre, Haymarket, or the King's Theatre, now Her Majesty's, but the present Theatre Royal) was opened, somewhat to the south of the former New Theatre.
2 September 1829: Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden,...
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2 September 1829
12 November 1833: Julia Glover caused a sensation when she...
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12 November 1833
Julia Glover
caused a sensation when she appeared as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Haymarket
.
June 1837: Elizabeth Planché's drama The Ransom opened...
Women writers item
June 1837
November 1842: Elizabeth Planché's comedy The Welsh Girl...
Women writers item
November 1842
June 1843: Ben Webster, manager of the Haymarket, announced...
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June 1843
Ben Webster
, manager of the Haymarket
, announced a play-writing contest.
August 1843: Lady Emmeline Wortley's play Moonshine was...
Women writers item
August 1843
Lady Emmeline Wortley
's play Moonshine was condemned by the critics when it opened at the Haymarket
.
1855: The Haymarket Theatre became known as the...
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1855
The Haymarket Theatre
became known as the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
29 July 1862: Madge Robertson made her London stage debut...
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29 July 1862
Madge Robertson
made her London stage debut at the Haymarket Theatre
, aged fourteen.
2 October 1862: Dion Boucicault wrote to The Times pointing...
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2 October 1862
Dion Boucicault
wrote to The Times pointing out the widely varying rents for West End theatres.
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
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By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
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