The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The Wedding Day, a comedy by EI
, opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1700 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
unveiled at Drury Lane
another comedy which was to hold the stage for generations: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 321 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 152 |
Performance of text | Catherine Cuthbertson | A play entitled Anna opened at Drury Lane
, ascribed to Miss Cuthbertson. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 385 |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
's first play, the five-act comedy First Faults, had its single performance (a benefit), at Drury Lane
. 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. 325 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's only mature tragedy, The Cruel Gift; or, The Royal Resentment (said to have been written in collaboration with Nicholas Rowe
, though its several editions give her name alone), opened at Drury Lane
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 207 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Performance of text | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | A five-act tragedy by Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
, Ina, set in Anglo-Saxon England, ran for a single night at Drury Lane Theatre
in London. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
performed the role of Lady Julia at Drury Lane
in her second play, Personation; or, Fairly Taken In, a farce or comic interlude. 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. 326 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's final comedy, The Artifice, opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 688 |
Performance of text | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The Regent, by Bertie Greatheed
(one of the Della Cruscans
) appeared at Drury Lane
with an epilogue by HLP
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 331 |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | CT
's only comedy, the didactic Love at a Loss; or, Most Votes Carry It, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 256 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 5 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Luckey Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain was licensed; it had probably already opened at Drury Lane
with the new United Company
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | Drury Lane
put on a farce or opening piece by SC
entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders. Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 217 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 133 |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | The play had opened at Drury Lane
about a month previously. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 413 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 464 |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | CT
's fourth play and third verse tragedy, The Unhappy Penitent, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane
. It bore her name as Mrs. Trotter. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 257 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 7 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane
which may have been... |
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