Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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| 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
. 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 |
| 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 | 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. qtd. in 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, 1999, pp. 54-74. 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 | 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, 2002, 2 vols. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 55 |
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October 1972: A gala performance was held at the Haymarket...
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October 1972
A gala performance was held at the Haymarket Theatre
, featuring all the leading lights of the British stage, to celebrate Dame Sybil Thorndike
's ninetieth birthday.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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