Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
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Textual Production | Amelia Opie | Despite the volume's title, The Ruffian Boy had been in print well before this, and had spawned several theatrical incarnations. These included one based on the story, written by Edward Ball
and produced at Norwich... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 254 Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 455 |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | BL
collaborated with Nona Shepphard
on The Drury Lane
Ghost, staged in London in 1989, Peter Pan, 1991 (in which she played the voice of Tinkerbell), and The Sleeping Beauty, 1992. On... |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | After asking the actor George Powell
to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
adapted The Travellers; or, Prince of China: An interesting story from an opera, The Travellers, with music by Domenico Corri
and libretto by Andrew Cherry
, which had opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | A musical drama by PG
was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, new manager of Drury Lane Theatre
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the... |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Mary Davys | Something occurred to make Drury Lane
reject MD
's next play, The Self-Rival, which it should have Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlviii Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlviii |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | She wrote a farce which she submitted to Robert Elliston
, manager of Drury Lane
(and an old friend who later proposed marriage to her). But he did not accept her play. In 1829 (after... |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library
. Sheridan
rejected it for Drury Lane |
Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Publishing | Frances Sheridan | She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire
's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a... |
Author summary | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her... |
Performance of text | Sophia Lee | SL
's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane
. It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble
in 1774. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlviii |
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