Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
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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.
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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, 1996.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
Drury Lane put on a farce or opening piece by SC entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders.
Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 217
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Performance of text Catherine Gore
CG , still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane , featuring the French monarch Henri IV .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Author summary Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her...
Publishing Ann Yearsley
As early as March-April 1788 AY 's backers Eliza Dawson and Wilmer Gossip were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at...
Publishing Mary Davys
Something occurred to make Drury Lane reject MD 's next play, The Self-Rival, which it should have
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Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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performed. MD duly included it in her Works, 1725.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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