Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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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.
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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
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
SC 's comedy The Basset Table opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 107
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
68
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 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 Dorothea Celesia
DC 's Almide, an adaptation of Tancrede by Voltaire , opened at Drury Lane in London. It proved a success, and ran for ten nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Performance of text Frances Burney
FB 's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane , starring Sarah Siddons .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Textual Production Frances Burney
After the triumph of Evelina, FB 's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane Theatre , and of dramatist Arthur Murphy .
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering.
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Textual Production Robert Browning
RB 's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre with Helen Faucit playing Mildred.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB 's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick and John Rich had rejected this tragedy for the stage.
The play had been in competition with one of the...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...
Friends, Associates Mary Matilda Betham
As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
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MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
There opened at Drury Lane Theatre a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble , which was adapted from AB 's The Rover.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
69 (1790): 593
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 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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