Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
1: 124 and n3
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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... |
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 | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anna Williams | David Garrick
put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre
for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 124 and n3 |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 |
Occupation | Frances Eleanor Trollope | During the 1850s the Ternan women acted in London, at theatres such as Drury Lane
, the Princess's Theatre
, and Sadler's Wells
. Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 787 |
Occupation | Sir Richard Steele | Richard Steele
was appointed governor of Drury Lane Theatre
. He was suspended from this position in 1720 and restored to it the following year. Steele, Sir Richard. The Tender Husband. Editor Winton, Calhoun, Edward Arnold. 87-8 |
Performance of text | Frances Sheridan | FS
's first play, the comedy The Discovery (which had been in rehearsal the previous November), opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 976 Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. xiv |
Performance of text | Frances Sheridan | FS
's second comedy, The Dupe (called by editor Joyce Coates Cleary
an interesting cross between a farce and a morality play), opened at Drury Lane
; but it flopped. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1025 Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. xiv |
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... |
Occupation | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | In June 1776, the year after his first comedy had snatched success from the jaws of defeat, RBS
added to the career of a dramatist the position of joint manager of Drury Lane Theatre
... |
Occupation | Mary Robinson | MR
made her stage debut at Drury Lane
as Juliet to William Brereton
's Romeo; she was an instantaneous success. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 26, 63 Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen. 87-9 |
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