Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
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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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Norton | The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre
on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN
's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. 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. |
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 Production | Marianne Chambers | The same year it played at the Theatre Royal
itself, and also reached print. |
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... |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
wrote several plays. She had already refused one invitation to write for Drury Lane
when in March 1816 she met and was impressed by both Edmund Kean
and his wife, Mary
. Mary described... |
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. 64 |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane
in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean
's revival of The Jew of Malta... |
Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published, again with Tabart
, The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 12 |
Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | Many of CG
's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was... |
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. 1: xviii, 3 |
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