Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's comedy The Basset Table opened at Drury Lane . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 107 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 68
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, 1987. 331
Performance of text	Harriet Lee	HL 's comedy The New Peerage; or, Our Eyes may Deceive Us opened at Drury Lane . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 1019
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 976 Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 321 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 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, 1996. 385
Performance of text	Sophia Lee	SL 's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane , after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 1025 Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv
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, 1952. 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, 1990.
Performance of text	Sophia Lee	SL 's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane . It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble in 1774. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xlviii
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's final comedy, The Artifice, opened at Drury Lane . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 688
Performance of text	Catherine Gore	CG 's second comedy, Lords and Commons, opened at the patent theatre of Drury Lane , almost within five months of her first. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 5
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...

Timeline

14 November 1874

Dion Boucicault 's The Shaughraun opened at Wallack's Theatre in New York.

Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.

347

Hawkins-Dady, Mark et al., editors. International Dictionary of Theatre. St James Press, 1992–1996, 3 vols.

I: 735

1940

Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the Entertainments National Service Association (generally known as ENSA) to boost the morale of factory workers, allied servicemen, and civilians in underground air-raid shelters.

Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.

Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.

101

Ziegler, Philip. London at War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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