Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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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 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HC 's unpublished interlude The School of Eloquence (a satire on the currently fashionable debating clubs) was performed at Drury Lane .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 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 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 '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
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 Frances Sheridan
She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire 's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a...
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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