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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Performance of text	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM 's tragedy Rienzi opened at Drury Lane Theatre ; it ran for thirty-four nights, making her reputation as a dramatist. Sullivan dates the opening 11 October, but MRM herself, as edited by L'Estrange, suggests...
Performance of text	Hannah Cowley	HC 's unpublished interlude The School of Eloquence (a satire on the currently fashionable debating clubs) was performed at Drury Lane .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	Eliza Haywood	EH 's comedy A Wife to be Lett opened at Drury Lane. Haywood took the leading comic role of Mrs Graspall (owing to someone else's illness), and also spoke an epilogue. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 128
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	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
Performance of text	Elizabeth Inchbald	The Wedding Day, a comedy by EI , opened at Drury Lane . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1700
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	Maria Theresa Kemble	MTK 's first play, the five-act comedy First Faults, had its single performance (a benefit), at Drury Lane . Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 325
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	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. 385
Performance of text	Maria Theresa Kemble	MTK performed the role of Lady Julia at Drury Lane in her second play, Personation; or, Fairly Taken In, a farce or comic interlude. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 326 Feminist Companion Archive.
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's final comedy, The Artifice, opened at Drury Lane . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 688
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. 331
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.
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

Timeline

14 November 1874

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

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.

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