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.
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Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's prize-winning final play, Quid Pro Quo; or, The Day of Dupes, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. 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. 57 Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 26 |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | In spring 2018 Frozen was revived at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
. Billington, Michael. “A Criminal Coldness”. Country Life, pp. 94-5. 94 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 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 |
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