The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1952
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Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane
, as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick
's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1952 Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, p. v - xlxx. vii, x |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane
under Garrick
's successor, Sheridan
. It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 246 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's unpublished interlude The School of Eloquence (a satire on the currently fashionable debating clubs) was performed at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 328 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's tragedy The Fate of Sparta; or, The Rival Kings opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1038 |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
Employer | Elizabeth Cooper | As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane
, and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | Her career opened well. Next year she took the demanding role of Alicia in Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore. She became stock-reader or general understudy in the Drury Lane Company
, in which capacity she played Cleopatra. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 18 |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | Colley Cibber
retired abruptly from managing Drury Lane
, passing it not to his son Theophilus
but to John Highmore
; Theophilus, CC
, and other performers defected to the illicit Little Theatre in the Haymarket
. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 18 Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber. 52-3 |
Performance of text | Charlotte Charke | CC
's topical farceThe Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd, a satire on Fleetwood
and other Drury Lane
personnel, played at York Buildings
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 513 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Charke | Charlotte's father, Colley Cibber
, was an actor, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and Poet Laureate: he had become an unfaithful husband before Charlotte was born, and he was at the peak of his... |
Performance of text | Marianne Chambers | MC
's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's Drury Lane
. James Mason
published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 383 |
Performance of text | Marianne Chambers | MC
's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum
in London with actors from the Theatre Royal
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 383 Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3: 73n5 |
Textual Production | Marianne Chambers | The same year it played at the Theatre Royal
itself, and also reached print. |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's first play, The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice, was performed at Drury Lane
. Its precise date seems to be unknown. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: xlv, 4 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 33 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's Molière
adaptation Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin Malgre Luy opened anonymously at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 37 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 51 |
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