Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Performance of text	Catharine Trotter	CT 's fourth play and third verse tragedy, The Unhappy Penitent, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane . It bore her name as Mrs. Trotter. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 257 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 7
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: xlv, 4 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 33
Performance of text	Mary Pix	It had been given at Drury Lane , probably during August, with songs set by Daniel Purcell , Henry 's brother. Next year MP , like Catharine Trotter , transferred her allegiance to the new...
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 246
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, 1973–1993. 325
Performance of text	Joanna Baillie	Of the twenty-eight plays that JB wrote, only seven were professionally produced. These were De Monfort,The Family Legend, Henriquez, The Separation, The Election, Constantine Paleologus, and Basil...
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 37 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 51
Performance of text	Hannah Cowley	HC 's unpublished interlude The School of Eloquence (a satire on the currently fashionable debating clubs) was performed at Drury Lane .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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 328
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, 1973–1993. 326 Feminist Companion Archive.
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	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, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 1038
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	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

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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